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To: Elroy who wrote (248060)	8/30/2005 6:49:30 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574004

re: This was true of the Xmas tsunami in Asia. The first news of the damage came out of the relatively wealthy resort areas in Thailand and Sri Lanka, and the death toll slowly climbed toward 50,000. Then a few days after the event when they saw what the tsunami did to Northern Sumatra (which is really poor and right next to the epicenter of the quake) it jumped in about a day to 150,000. The resorts got hit with 10-20 foot tall waves, whereas the rural coastline of Sumatra appeared to have been hit with waves twice the height and caused enough devastation that there was virtually no one around left to tell the story. Yeah but you expect that from Sumatra, not New Orleans. With all our cell phones and camera crews and helicopters and internet you would think it would mean instant info, but with hurricanes it never is. And that also doesn't fit our short attention span news cycle; by tomorrow when the real story is just coming out Katrina will be old news and a victim of click-through. I saw a headline this morning with 55 dead... I expect that to go up.