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Well I guess I've been in better moods. Unless you've been living under a rock, I expect you've heard about the tsunamis in indonesia and sri lanka, and the whole general maldives etc island area. My parents are really worried because my cousin is living in Jakarta, which was totally safe, but he's visiting some other resorts for break. We don't know if he's ok yet, but my parents told us not to feel either way about it...Over 14,000 are dead in Indonesia and Sri Lanka says that over 1 million were affected there (and the population is only about 7 million or something). The whole idea of it is like a nightmare. Maybe I'm the only one, but I alway dream about huge waves and how no amount of land or height can save you. They seem to think some of these areas will end existence. Some of the waves were strong enough to push the islands 20 meters or something. Imagine a fifteen foot high 5 mile wall coming at you. Even if you could hold your breath for five miles the power of the wave would carry you along with it. 5 countries entire fishing industries were wiped out. That will destroy the economy for them, adn there's nothing they can do. I'm so terrified over how many people from Perth died. Bali and those areas are like Hawaii to W. Australians and it's summer there now. Some of our friends we knew were in Bali and they e-mailed us to say they're ok. And I don't know if it's the same people, but my mom was talking about someone we knew who was apparently in a hotel on the third story and people were being pinned up against their window and dying, but there was nothing they could do. It doesn't get much worse. War you can blame on others, and other acts of stupidity you can blame on people. Even diseases rarely take people suddenly and even then there's fault somewhere. It's just all sort of sick.