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viejo gringo

WOW---looks like they nuked it....

Dostoevsky

Wow, you're right....That's exactly what it looks like. Straight scorched earth.

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absorbentishe

That's unreal. Too hard to imagine I guess.

Blackthorn

There are twenty sets of before and after shots in this link. Here is #2 just as a sample. They are all awful displays of the devastation.

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Dear God....After

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HamiC

So tragic....so sad. I can't begin to imagine what it must be like to have everything, and in some instances everyone, taken away.

sgn43

That is just unbelievable. I still can't wrap my mind around the amount of destruction that tsunami caused. And like gringo and dostoevsky already said, I haven't seen that kind of devastation since I first saw aerial before/after shots of Hiroshima back in middle school.

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DDDDave

What is amazing too is that from that second picture you can see that the water hasn't really 'receeded'.

The earthquake was so large and close to Banda Aceh that the ground level is actually lower than it was before. Those dark areas are now under water permanently.

At least the people on the other side of the ocean just got waves and then the water went back out.

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Jonsgirl

Wow....just....wow.

This makes me want to cry.

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Julie

can i ask a question, how did they get the before and after pics of the place at the same positions? was it through satellite?

jwoody

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After...





p.s. Julie, yes they are satellite images from http://www.digitalglobe.com/

he_haha

simply amazing

edmos1

that is amazing, you hear #'s but to see large scale devastation like that

Dwayne

Thats incredible, I still cant believe the devestation caused.