Farangs describe the Disaster to BBC

"Alan Street" wrote in message
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| In article , Yamamoto
| wrote:
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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.
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| ? | ? Many of the tourist were older people who barely can walk a few
meters
| ? | ? uphill.
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| ? | I've been to Phi Phi a couple of times. At 41, I was one of the older
| ? | tourists.
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| ? I was barely a month ago in koh Phi-Phi with my wife and my kid.
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| ? If somebody would have shout: "Run for your live, a tsunami is on the
way.
| ? You have less than 1 hour to get safe."
| ? I would pay my bill at the restaurant where we were having breakfast,
| ? started walking trough the small street filled with people with my kid
on my
| ? arm towards the mountains, I would'nt be here today.
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| You stated that many of the tourists on Phi-Phi were older and couldn't
| have walked up the hills. Now you're saying that you wouldn't be here
| if you'd walked up those hills?
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| Once again, with clarity.
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| Alan

OK, trying to explain more in detail for you.

In the event that there would have been a warning, but NO real sign of a
Tsunami at that time (remember that the Tsunami hit Thailand 1 hour after
the triggering).

At that time, I would surely be having breakfast in a restaurant or hotel.

I would need to pay my bill at the restaurant, get important things at the
hotel, return to the restaurant to join my wife and my child, and start to
walk towards a hill with the baby on my arms trough a small road where 100's
of people are trying to do the same thing. And all that in less than 1 hour.
Only the very young and very fit would succeed.
Read the different posts about many people who died in Phuket on their way
to try to escape after the first waves hit Thailand.

Even if I would start to walk to the hill straight away with a child on my
arms trough a small road where 100's of people are trying to do the same
thing, I can guarantee you that I wouldn't had made it.

It's easy to say what had to be done to save life's AFTER the disaster.
If it was so easy, there wouldn't have been 120,000+ casualties.

When such things happens, there will always be some smart guys who will
start a discussion about how "many life's could have been saved IF there was
a warning system", "many life's could have he saved IF there was a real
evacuation plan", "many life's could have been saved IF
....................."

We use to say: "IF my auntie had balls, she would be my uncle".

But it is simply NOT so.
Period.

The REALITY is that there are more than 100,000 dead registered already and
the final death toll will be a lot higher. Talking about what could have
been done to save some of them doesn't bring anyone back to life and makes
no sense.

Talk about REAL FACTS and not SUPPOSED things.

Cheers,

Carlos