In article , Yamamoto
wrote:

€ "Alfred Molon" wrote in message
€ ...
€ | In article , Yamamoto says...
€ |
€ | For instance, take the case of Phi-Phi Island. An island, barely a few
€ miles
€ | of superficy, and almost flat with almost no roads to the higher places.
€ | Only if people had a shelter to hide into, they were able to protect
€ | themselves from the disaster. But most people sleep in their boat or
€ tuk-tuk
€ | as they cannot afford more, and Thailand has no shelters to protect them
€ | from such disasters. In Thaivisa.com people describes how the sea was
€ taking
€ | their children out of their arms.
€ |
€ | The time between the Earthquake and the tidal moves was too short to
€ start
€ | evacuate all this humans.
€ |
€ | Putting-up a system to prevent from such disasters without setting-up at
€ the
€ | same time shelters and other protection systems, is like "putting the
€ | chickens in a fox hole to shelter".
€ |
€ | No need to set up shelters on Koh Phi Phi. The island has two hills at
€ | least a couple of hundred metres high:
€ | http://www.molon.de/galleries/Thaila.../img.php?pic=5
€
€ True, walking up 2 hills would have been a solution.
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€ | It is possible to walk onto these peaks (there is a path), so the people
€ | on Koh Phi Phi could have simply walked onto these places.
€
€ Many of the tourist were older people who barely can walk a few meters
€ uphill.


I've been to Phi Phi a couple of times. At 41, I was one of the older
tourists.