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Hi. Just a quick update to say that the wife and I are fine and safe and dry and inland. We left Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, where we stood at the very tippy-tip of India just two days before the tidal waves hit. Apparently the death toll in the affected Asian countries is already well over 11,500. It’s just beginning to occur to me that some of the fishermen in my photos are most likely… well… no longer fishermen. Ugh.
Anyway, just popping in from Bangalore to issue a sub-continent communique to concerned comrades, a lame one-off response to an email inbox I fear checking.
See you in 2005.
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13 responses
Comment posted at 03:51 on Monday, December 27, 2004
Glad to hear, was wondering if you’re okay.
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dan
Comment posted at 12:07 on Monday, December 27, 2004
I’m glad to see you posted this. very much so.
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Alice
Comment posted at 12:22 on Monday, December 27, 2004
We were concerned and very happy to hear you and Nara are safe.
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Cyndi
Comment posted at 12:30 on Monday, December 27, 2004
That post was the best thing I’ve seen on this website yet!
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Comment posted at 09:01 on Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Glad to hear you’re both safe. I hope finding your way back home won’t be too difficult. Now to track down another friend who was in the area.
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Comment posted at 10:43 on Tuesday, December 28, 2004
We’ve been worried sick. You could have at least called. 
Seriously, great news.
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Job
Comment posted at 11:14 on Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Glad to here you and Nara are safe. Hope to see you both the next time you are in the Chicago/Galena area, so I can give you both a BIG HUG. Have a safe return trip home.
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Comment posted at 12:53 on Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Good to hear you two are ok. Best wishes., mike
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heisenberg
Comment posted at 17:54 on Tuesday, December 28, 2004
That was a sad thing to see the news numbers keep going up. Having no oceanside warning is sobering and hard to imagine, because even the poorest Caribean and Gulf countries seem better on hurricane alerts. Seismologists on the other side of the earth knew instantly, and could reconstruct the instrument readings to locate the epicenter, but tourists and locals enjoying the beach either saw it coming soon enough, got swept away, or got lucky. I remember being in New Orleans when Hurricane Betsey hit. The water swept over the levees downriver, and then the levees kept things flooded for days. All that on one of the smaller planets in the solar system, and you can imagine the comet parts hitting Jupiter, the energy involved, and the asteroids that caused extinctions.
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thunder
Comment posted at 19:18 on Tuesday, December 28, 2004
i was afraid to check the site for fear there not being a post man.
glad to hear you too are ok.
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Matt
Comment posted at 07:52 on Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Wow, more than 500 people died where you and Nara were just two days before the waves.
I am having a hard time getting my mind around this disaster. NY Times has the death toll at +70,000 this morning with no good signs of it leveling off.
We are so glad to know that you are ok.
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palooka
Comment posted at 13:00 on Wednesday, December 29, 2004
had called mom right away from england to make sure you and nara were ok…relief, sadness. can’t shake the image of water receeding from shoreline for one mile before the wall of water hit. unfathomable.
now helping with organization local benefit concert, all proceeds go to relief efforts (any suggestions for the “right” organization?) choreographing one piece for it. anyway, can’t wait til you’re back. love, lil sis and bro-in-law.
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heisenberg
Comment posted at 13:57 on Friday, December 31, 2004
Wishing you and family and friends best of everything, for 2005.
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