Miscellaneous Tsunami Info
Some more-or-less unrelated, but interesting (to me) updates on The Wave:
- Randy Cassingham of This is True® and True Stella Awards wrote an article in 1986 on what tsunamis are and how they happen, and in response to the recent one has posted it on the web here.
- In the initial days after The Wave hit, telephone communications (including wireless phones) were knocked out, and amateur (”ham”) radio provided the only communications from certain areas, such as India’s Nicobar Islands. It happens that a group of American ham radio operators were there on a DXpedition, but enough local Indian operators are involved that the story would still be true. How much longer are we going to hear that ham radio is obsolete in the Internet Age?
- President Bush has asked former Presidents Clinton and G.H.W. Bush to lead a fundraising effort to help victims and survivors of The Wave.
- Hollywood types are famous for spouting off about public issues but not really doing anything about them. Here’s a refreshing exception: Sandra Bullock has donated a million dollars to the American Red Cross for the relief effort. She also gave a million dollars to help the relief effort after the attacks on September 11, 2001. What’s even more impressive, given the acceptance and benefits of publicity-hounding in Hollywood, is that the donation announced by the Red Cross, as opposed toby Sandra Bullock or her publicist.
- Sri Lanka’s most famous foreign resident, Arthur C. Clarke, writes that he is OK, and his staff is OK, but his diving company suffered substantial property damage. The link quotes a letter from him, and links to a profile about what’s he’s been up to lately.
- Michelle Malkin reports that she has already received her first tsunami spam e-mail. I’m sure we’ll all be getting these soon. Reminder: donate to organizations you’d heard of before The Wave hit.
- Michael Fumento has an article on “The Lives We Can Still Save.”
