A woman in my office went to Sri Lanka for her holiday to visit family. We don't have any word about her.

There have been reports of several Canadian missing or dead. We don't know if she's among them.

Holey shit man. I was in Vegas for the most part when this happened, and I really didn't believe it. Then I watched the news, and me and my friends were silent for several minutes.

I really don't know but does anyone know if the Phillipines, Vietnam, or Thailand were hit at all ? :( we've got relatives over there and my moms can't get a hold of them at all.

And IOWASTATEPHIPSI, what is your problem dude? Seriously? Is Bobby gonna hafta choke a bitch?

Unfortunately Thailand was hit quite badly. Last I hear the phone lines were still down.

I do hope that you can get in touch with your family and that they are all safe.

Vietnam and the Philippines weren't effected. Thailand was hit hard in its east coast, especially the resorts islands such as Phuket and Phi Phi.

ETA: Here are some pictures when the Tsunami first hit Thailand. Very very scary.

Link to the pictures

Apparently it already reached over 100,000. Sumatra found at least 28,000 more dead.

http://news.yahoo.com/asiadisaster


Trying to put this all into perspective is tough. I mean 114,000 people is an entire population of some small state or country even. I can't even fathom what is going to happen in the next couple weeks.

my aunt, uncle, and cousins are over there (well a few more hours until they catch their flight). they went to go see my aunt's family for christmas and then was to head over to where it got hit. our family didn't know anything right away if they were okay or what not. finally my mom was in contact with one of their neighbors who gave them some information and then soon after talking to her my mom luckly recieved an email from our family saying "we are okay." The email I guess said that since they took longer than normal on eating lunch before arriving there they just missed being there by 45 minutes.

wow! this is so heartbreaking. did anyone catch ABC's one hour news about this tragedy yesterday night? i felt so helpless watching everything happen. people crying, bodies everywhere, no food, etc. my mom started tearing up when that on little boy was reunited with his father. also, how hard was it for the one mom that had to let go of one of her kids to save the other? man oh man! she let the older one go. thankfully both kids survived.

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It's over 118,000 now. CNN thinks it's over 131,000. That is like the total number of initiated members in Gamma Phi Beta. Ever. Over 130 years.

And in Sri Lanka alone there are over a million homeless. I have a feeling that things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. I don't know how they're going to control disease.

:(

Ahhh it's over 135,000 now. I'm going to bed. I can't watch the news anymore.

CNN is all Tsunami, all the time. I knwo its a huge news story, probably the biggest in a decade or so, but its so horrible watching it.

I wouldnt be suprised if the death tally reach 150,000 or god forbid 200,000.

The aftermath of water-borne infections and disease will most likely take it well over 200,000 in the next week or so... the only comprable disaster in recent history was the Chinese dams bursting in the 70s - 85,000 killed by initial disaster; 150,000+ by the aftermath...

I'm afraid it might just hit 200,000. Indonesia alone is predicting over 100,000 death. :(

Just imagine... the number of confirmed deaths from the tsunami are rapidly approaching the number killed outright in the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nearly 60 years ago.

Also, unfortunately, he will hear what she said ... over and over throughout his life. While i'm happy their family made it, I would have taken that to the grave.