[Fsf-friends] Can someone reach Ramanraj

[KG Kumar]

Ramanraj,

I am taking the liberty of posting this to the SAMUDRA News Alerts
service of ICSF (www.icsf.net). It may also be found later on
http://www.icsf.net/jsp/english/flashNews.jsp

Regds and hopes of strength, courage, fortitude, peace...

kg



On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:05:51 +0530, Ramanraj K <ramanraj@iqara.net> wrote:
>   Anand Babu wrote:
> 
> >I just realized Ramanraj's house is near the beach. I tried
> >calling him a couple of times and got no response. Can someone reach
> >him and confirm us if he safe and needed any help?
> >
> AB, thanks.  We were lucky to survive the Tsunami that has wrecked
> severe damage along the coast, but gave the opportunity to again realise
> that nothing is more valuable than life, the rights and freedoms we
> could carry with us all the time.
> 
> Many people, whole hamlets at many places, fishermen in particular, who
> live life on the beaches, have lost lives, their dear ones, and their
> homes.  Nature's fury is something we may have to sometimes accept and
> live with, but man made disasters are the most unacceptable ones.  All
> of us need to do serious introspection, and find ways to overcome such
> calamities.  The earthquake occured around 7 am on Sunday morning, and
> the Tsunami waves took nearly 2 hours to hit the shores here around 9
> am.  Ample time was available to issue warnings, but nothing of that
> kind happened.  Even after the Tsunami hit, at most places only
> confusion reigned, and worse, instead of moving away from the sea shore,
> many people rushed to the danger to take a closer look at the disaster.
>  Moving away from the shore was what most sites advised, and we shifted
> to a friend's place.  Life along the coastlines have drasticly changed
> in few minutes time.
> 
> Many of the constructions along the coast fell, causing casualies. It is
> probably not practical or possible to build structures that can
> withstand Tsunami waves 10ft high, and warning people about the danger
> is the most important thing that could save lives.  Sivasankar's mail to
> ilugc on this issue had a response from James Lick <jlick@drivel.com>
> 
> <quote>
> >[Ilugc] OT: Automated Tsunami warning script/program ?]
> >I have a script to pull data for Taiwan from the Central Weather Bureau
> > web site: http://jameslick.com/twquake/
> >
> > I also send out automated email warnings in English and Chinese of
> > quakes here:
> > http://www.tcp.com/mailman/listinfo/twquake-alert-en
> 
> </quote>
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> *Thanks,
> Ramanraj.
> *
> 
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