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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (92506)	12/27/2004 6:35:13 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 793820

How would they know what to do, unless they had already done evacuation planning? I'm not talking about a sophisticated evacuation plan. I'm talking about common-sense individual responses. There are only two pieces needed to save some of the lives that were lost. One is to know that there was a big-time earthquake off Sumatra. The other is to recognize that the water has disappeared. It just takes one resort official to put two and two together and turn on the fire alarms or get out the bullhorn. The same is the case in a village. If they have radio or TV and can hear about the earthquake, they can keep watch and set off a warning, maybe some firecrackers. Hundreds or thousands of lives could be saved with simple provisions. Sure, the death toll could still be massive, but maybe only half as massive. It can't hurt to gas up the moped if you live on the coast and have heard there's been an earthquake.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (92506)	12/27/2004 10:26:28 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793820

The worst tragedy was all the people who saw that something weird was happening but instead of running away, ran toward the beach to gawk. But the reaction time at that point was so miniscule that, had it been me, I would have not stopped to give a warning, nor for anything but my own family and anybody who happened to be directly in my path. But it took hours for the tsunami to hit places like Reunion Island and Somalia. Those people, in theory, could have been saved.