We saw the Tsunami coming


Can you believe this:

Minutes after a massive earthquake rocked the Indian Ocean on Sunday, international ocean monitors knew that a tsunami would likely follow. But they didn’t know whom to tell.

“We put out a bulletin within 20 minutes, technically as fast as we could do it,” says Jeff LaDouce of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. LaDouce says e-mails were dispatched to Indonesian officials, but he doesn’t know what happened to the information.

That seems like a pretty shitty excuse to me. The article goes on to say that it could have been a false alarm and: “A 1986 false alarm in Hawaii cost more than $30 million in evacuation costs.” Well that’s great and all but can you really put a price tag on HUMAN LIVES? Aparently so.. because if I recall, was it 26,000 dead, 10,500 injured and 60,000 missing?

UPDATE: My man Jay has this on point with some link’age for donations.


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