Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Tsunami warnings

Some people really like drama!
The company just put us on tsunami warning (at 9"00pm) because of the earthquake in Sumatra...actually they put us on tsunami warning for one of the aftershock, didn't they? Who knows? *shrug*

At 11:10 GMT today a major earthquake hit the west coast of Sumatra. At 17:47 GMT BBC World News was publishing that the first tsunami warning had been lifted off for the first earthquake. For that one they tried to do some evacuation in Kenya. We never heard of it until we saw it in the news. The second one or was it the third or fourth one, none as major, I guess made them realize that nothing had been done around here so they issued a tsunami warning.
Apparently there were four tsunami warnings issued in 24 hours. I guess somebody in the office picked up on one and decided to enforce it.

You know this tsunami warning would work pretty well for those with electricity means of communication and possibly means of transport. But how do you reach the rest?
Around us, in little hamlets or in isolated huts, there are hundreds of people who couldn't be reached. There are no roads, no way to get to them, no way to know where they are. I just know that I "bump" into them as I go for walks, like the day we went to Giogio's village.