More Tsunami
I remarked to David earlier that the last news event I can remember which so totally dominated the news bulletins for so long was 11th September 2001. It's incredible that three days after the event you can still get a 30 minute news programme that reduces all other news to a couple of minutes at the end. But I think that just indicates the scale of what's happened, and what continues to be realised about it.
This evening's news had footage of some of the first landings on the closer in of some of the more remote island chains affected, and in many cases the devastation is total. It's like post-hurricane footage, and though common sense says that a tidal wave (or waves) could be as devastating, somehow it takes seeing scenes like this to make the actual force that can be generated real.
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