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eyeronic, it was awesome, in the way that it is so huge and powerful it's hard to come to terms with. And therein lies the problem. We aren't feeling that depressed over it because none of us have ever seen such a huge wave leaving devestation. We've seen earthquakes level buildings on the news, we've seen fires burn houses down in real life. All the news footage I have seen of the wave involved it washing a couple of people off a pier, that's not how 80,000 people died... There's very little actual coverage of the event and that is what is stopping us from looking at numbers and relating them to people being killed. September 11th, we were shown images of people jumping to save themselves from being burnt to death, that harrowing image has stuck with me since.
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