Dear Andy and friends:
The first tsunami wave attacked Veerampattinam, one of our fishing villages
near Pondicherry, at about 9.15 am yesterday and two people lost their
lives. Immediately, within minutes, the volunteer at the Veerampattinam
knowledge centre started appealing to the people to withdraw to safer places
through the public address system and further loss of life was averted.
There were two more waves at about 1040 and 1200 hours. At Nallavadu,
another fishing village, also no loss of life is reported, although huts
close the shore were washed away and a few boats were lost. The worst
affected was Moorthikuppam, the whole village inundated with sea water.
Every day our knowledge centres provide weather information - from CNN,
Accuweather, the local Met office and US Navy satellite (wave height
information). We are not, unfortunately, equipped to predict earthquakes and
tsunamis.
Many friends around the world have sent messages expressing concern and
anxiety. We are unable to answer all of them individually. Through this
message, we assure all of you that we are doing all that we can.
Arun
[Subbiah Arunachalam]
- Original Message -
From: Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 9:45 PM
Subject: [DDN] thoughts and prayers for our South Asian/ SE Asian colleagues
Hi everyone,
I was horrified to wake up this morning and learn about the devastating
earthquake and tsunami that struck south asia and south east asia
earlier today. I see that Tamil Nadu in India was particularly hard-hit,
home to our colleagues at the Swaminathan Foundation and the Open
Knowledge Network's Pondicherry telecentre project, among others. The
Pondicherry project focuses on providing weather data to local
fisherman, and it appears that hundreds, if not thousands of them have
been killed today. I know we have list members in Sri Lanka, Thailand,
Maldives, Malaysia and Indonesia as well; I hope all of you and your
families are safe. If anyone has word on the sitution of fellow DDN
members, please let us know.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you who are being affected by
this tragedy.
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Andy Carvin
Program Director
EDC Center for Media Community
acarvin @ edc . org
http://www.digitaldivide.net
Blog: http://www.andycarvin.com
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