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To: Snowshoe who wrote (58091)	1/2/2005 6:57:58 AM
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Warnings could save thousands Robin McKie, science editor Sunday January 2, 2005 The Observer In the early afternoon of 13 September 1999, the headmistress of the tiny school at Omoa on Fatu Hiva, in the Pacific, glanced out of her window to see water draining from the nearby beaches. She acted without hesitation. Her pupils were ordered to run to the back of their school, climb out of the windows and head for high ground. A few minutes later, with the last of her children crawling out of windows, a tsunami smashed through a concrete wall on the school's seaward side, and poured into the classroom. The wave destroyed the building - but without casualties. Every pupil was saved, thanks to their headmistress. guardian.co.uk