The Dink Network

The earthquake was spotted something like an hour before the gicantic waves hit the first islands on their route, so it would have been possible to at least warn the people. However, most of those Asian countries that suffered from the tsunami do not have the equipment to give out such messages, because they're so expensive.

That'd be from our newspaper. Makes you wonder, don't most of the people in Thailand still have TVs or radios? It can't be that expensive to stop the local MTV for a few seconds to peep in, "There's a tsunami on the way!", can it? It might have saved some of the lives, but not all. The hour would've scarcely been enough for escaping the immediate beach areas, but evacuation or building walls or so - no way.

My friend is on holiday in India... the other side of it (in Goa to be exact.) I checked on her a few days ago, and she was fine of course. She said they hadn't heard anything about the tsunami before some of their relatives had contacted them from Finland.. just that the wind had shifted direction during the night, which was when the tsunami had hit the coast (at least according to her).

They seem to do so well in information sharing in there...