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To: Road Walker who wrote (214233)	1/4/2005 10:08:13 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574043

"Looks like those photo's were fakes:" Too bad, they would have been a dramatic sequence if they were true. Looking at them again, some of the people in the next to last photo appear to be laughing. Odd behavior for people fleeing for their lives...

To: Road Walker who wrote (214233)	1/4/2005 11:55:46 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574043

These photographs are being circulated as pictures of the tsunami that struck Indian Ocean shorelines in Asia on 26 December 2004, purportedly taken in Thailand. Other sources claim, however, that the photographs date from 2002 and actually depict a tidal festival held annually in China. I don't know exactly what the picture actually shows. There is apparently a phenomina in which the tide enters a bay and all the water is funneled into a river at the end of the bay (the river has to run east-west for this to happen). It creates a huge wave running down the river. This is called a tidal bore. Maybe that is what is shown. did.sarawak.gov.my The Qiantang River is particularly famous for this. hangzhou.com.cn