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blackcat Prowler Junkie Posts: 1744 |
posted 01-11-2005 05:14 PM
BANGKOK, Thailand - Until two weeks ago, Smith Thammasaroj was a prophet without honor. As chief of Thailand’s meteorological department in 1998, he was accused of scare-mongering when he warned that the country’s southwest coast could face a deadly tsunami. Now when Smith speaks, people listen. And he has a new message: The United States must take some of the blame for the grievous number of casualties. The 68-year-old forecaster — who earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Vermont in 1962 — said he believes that if the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center had acted quickly enough, many lives could have been saved. Workers at the Hawaii center have said they tried in vain to warn Indian Ocean nations about the possible effects of the earthquake but they were not equipped to monitor that part of the world and didn’t even have phone numbers for the right officials. The Hawaii center, set up in 1948, hosts the only regional network of its kind in the world, but is set up solely to monitor Pacific Ocean countries. “I’m not angry at them for failing to warn Thailand, because at that time they did not know for sure, they merely said a tsunami was possible after the earthquake,” Smith told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday. But after the giant waves hit southern Thailand, the center had more than an hour to alert India, Bangladesh and the Maldives, “and if they warned those countries, they could have saved thousands of lives,” he said. “It’s their failure to do so that makes me mad at them,” he said. |
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weteyes Prowler Junkie Posts: 169 |
posted 01-11-2005 05:27 PM
i knew wed be blamed for something . im wondering when they will just say we did it |
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Lone Ranger Prowler Junkie Posts: 2120 |
posted 01-11-2005 05:32 PM
And the beat(ing) goes on.. |
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Dale Beaman Prowler Junkie Posts: 2699 |
posted 01-11-2005 07:22 PM
I think it was something that Bush had Chaney do! That is why we have not seen or heard from him since the election. It is probably a plan for Halibuton to make lots of money!! |
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MDProwler Prowler Junkie Posts: 5250 |
posted 01-11-2005 07:39 PM
Suuuuurrrrrre, let's warn the governments so the can send smoke signals to the villagers with no phones. All in less than an hour.  |
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ALLEY CAT Prowler Junkie Posts: 36093 |
posted 01-11-2005 07:45 PM
I'm thinking I should lean towards the way you guys are thinking. It must be our fault,,,,we want to outsource more jobs there and this way our tax dollars can build new infrastructure. I say we should raise our contribution to 2 Billion $$$. |
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rsterling78 Prowler Junkie Posts: 286 |
posted 01-11-2005 08:21 PM
Yeah, if Kerry had won the election I'm sure Earth's tectonic plates would have stayed put. |
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Ray unregistered Posts: 286 |
posted 01-11-2005 10:34 PM
Yup, another BUSH falt ... lets pay out to cover our responsibility ... oh yeah, California is a disaster area too ... well, hell ... the foreign ground comes first! Best let the world know how we help them versus our own, heck, THAT would be selfish! (and on a side note and of more serious nature ... in California -- if EVERY movie star gave $1M ... just THINK of the relief effort that their own state would see!!!) |
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CJ Prowler Junkie Posts: 18860 |
posted 01-11-2005 11:04 PM
We can't win, can we? Are these people nuts? Since when did we become responsible for the rest of the world? Hey...are there millions of dollars coming in from all over the world to help with the damage that is happening right now in CA????? |
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Orange unregistered Posts: 18860 |
posted 01-11-2005 11:18 PM
quote: That guy is obviously a fu**ing moron. Yeah, and it's my fault some guy in Moscow burned his toast yesterday... I should have called and warned him. |
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Thunder Prowler Junkie Posts: 456 |
posted 01-12-2005 01:05 AM
Just ignore it....don't know why we let such a$$holes influence our lives....it's not even worth acknowledging....JMO |
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Randy Cobb Prowler Junkie Posts: 4070 |
posted 01-12-2005 06:58 AM
It was due to a vast right wing conspiracy to take over Asia. |
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KlasKat Prowler Junkie Posts: 1835 |
posted 01-12-2005 01:08 PM
Yes, that is true, and of course this huge snow storm on the West coast was ordered by them also because they are a Blue State.    This message has been edited by PAHs Sunset Ride on 01-12-2005 at 01:08 PM |
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YellowFever unregistered Posts: 1835 |
posted 01-12-2005 01:46 PM
quote: I agree, at the risk of sounding uncaring, there are every type of fundraiser, money drive, tv ad, radio ad, commercial, concert, federal money, donatations going to this part of the world. It's complete overload and overplayed. Makes one wonder if the overall goal is to make everyone remotely associated with it a lottery winner.... As far as the rest of the world, everyone expects everything from us and then hates us for everything we have. I think it's time we pick up our marbles and only play with those that equally respect us (money coming their way or not). Wonder how many foreign telethons and money drives will be done to help California or the work still to be done with Florida after 4 hurricanes???? I'm guessing, NONE! |
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