Tsunami

The only news that I have heard while here in OK is of the terrible disaster unfolding in the Indian Ocean. Wikipedia is collecting information about it on their article. There is a blog where you can track relief operations, casualties, and most importantly, various entries updating the many ways that you can to contribute to the various organizations that are trying to face the disaster’s aftermath.

Without seeing enough of the images of the aftermath and movie clips, this is one of those events which are just hard to fathom by reading online news articles. We see the numbers, and I can compare it to previous events and see how large these numbers are, but it is much harder to get a grip on the huge suffering involved and how huge the impact this will be on thousands of whole communities on the Indian ocean rim. There a note here on the historical perspective, but this is completely regional disaster of a huge scale.