another tsunami

A TSUNAMI HIT AMERICAN SAMOA, killing at least 22 people. And as we all remember too well, those numbers tend to increase drastically.

The magnitude of the 2004 tsunami is still shocking. I’ve seen a couple of places that were hit by it (the Andaman Islands, and the Indian coast near Pondicherry) and it’s still hard to believe it. The story I still find most horrifying is of the woman south of Pondicherry whose ten children were all on the beach when the tsunami hit, and none of them were ever seen again.