What the hell??????????????
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
ok, why not? After all they blame us for everything else.
rest of article here
Someone should send him this line... "The Hawaii center, set up in 1948, hosts the only regional network of its kind in the world, but is set up solely to monitor Pacific Ocean countries. " I think someone forgot to tell him that.
Stupid. Just stupid.
U.S. partly to be blamed for high toll in Tsunami
U.S. could have helped with warning
Now when Smith Thammasaroj speaks, people listen. And he has a new message: The United States must take some of the blame for the grievous number of casualties.
The 68-year-old forecaster — who earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Vermont in 1962 — said he believes that if the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center had acted quickly enough, many lives could have been saved.
Workers at the Hawaii center have said they tried in vain to warn Indian Ocean nations about the possible effects of the earthquake but they were not equipped to monitor that part of the world and didn’t even have phone numbers for the right officials.
The Hawaii center, set up in 1948, hosts the only regional network of its kind in the world, but is set up solely to monitor Pacific Ocean countries.
“I’m not angry at them for failing to warn Thailand, because at that time they did not know for sure, they merely said a tsunami was possible after the earthquake,” Smith told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday.
But after the giant waves hit southern Thailand, the center had more than an hour to alert India, Bangladesh and the Maldives, “and if they warned those countries, they could have saved thousands of lives,” he said.
“It’s their failure to do so that makes me mad at them,” he said.
rest of article here
Someone should send him this line... "The Hawaii center, set up in 1948, hosts the only regional network of its kind in the world, but is set up solely to monitor Pacific Ocean countries. " I think someone forgot to tell him that.
Stupid. Just stupid.
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