At 01:52 PM 12/30/2004 -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: >(Which is why the goober on CNN yesterday blabbing about "defending" from >tsunamis needs a course in basic physics. You don't "defend" from things >like this. The best you can hope for is enough warning to get far, far away.) Which, in the case of some of the countries effected by the recent tsunami may involved major changes in infrastructure and availability of mass public transportation. Even if an advance notification system was in place, those in Sri Lanka only had 2 hours to get to a "safe" place. I can only imagine what kind of chaos would have taken place if they had known that a tsunami would hit land in two hours. John Fereira jaf30_at_cornell.edu Ithaca, NY *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Dec 30 2004 - 12:59:39 PST
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