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To: Snowshoe who wrote (58094)	1/2/2005 10:23:42 AM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 74559

Before some expensive warning system setting up, just some experienced local residents or animals/bugs can tell tsunami is coming. Message 20907071 “George McCready, 42, a marine biologist originally from Glasgow, who now runs boat tours in Thailand, was tipped off by local fisherman minutes before the disaster that a tidal wave was about to strike. "I had been taking tourists in my boat visiting the small islands of Phi Phi and Koh Ratha and we decided to berth on the east coast of Phuket," he said. "The next day I received a call telling me that the water was beginning to empty from the little bays and coastal inlets of that area. To the locals, that can only mean one thing: that a tidal wave was about to hit. "I decided to stay where we were, on the ‘safe’ side of the island, and warned as many people as I could. Within a short space of time, the impact of the wave was making itself felt. If I hadn’t got the call we would have been caught up in the middle of it. “ Message 20906790 "JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) -- Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a "sixth sense" for disasters, experts said on Thursday. Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found. " -------------- I read that a couple from Macao went to Phuket and after checking in their cabin right by the sea, they saw a lot of roaches. So they complained to the hotel. The hotel said there is usually no roaches at this time, but switched them to a hotel much farther from the sea. That really saved their lives. They went back after the tsunami, saw that cabin was entirely under the water. Meanwhile, all the countries along oceans, whether it is Pacific or Indian Oceans, should stop destroy mangroves. infoshop.org How capitalism worsened the tsunami's toll "HONG KONG -- The ring of coral in crystal waters around the Surin Island chain off Thailand's west coast forms a sturdy defense against the sea. So when the tsunami struck on Sunday it punched a few holes in the reef, but the structure mostly held firm. The reef, says Thai marine environmentalist Thon Thamrongnavasawadi, may have saved many lives. Only a handful of people on the islands are known to have perished -- most scrambled to safety as the first wave exploded against the coral. Tragically, across much of Asia, coastal communities found themselves with no such shield against nature's fury. The protective reefs, sand dunes and MANGROVEs that look out toward the Indian Ocean in a broad arc from Sri Lanka to Bangladesh and Indonesia have been dynamited and bulldozed by a force as unstoppable as the tsunami itself -- the force that drives some of the world's fastest-growing economies."