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Russell Brown

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:21:48 +1300

Isn't it? My (now) wife and I stayed on Railay Beach for some time in 2004 a few weeks before the Boxing Day tsunami. It's a small place and a number of "famous" photos came from that beach after the fact – made it quite real and surreal at the…

Jeremy Andrew

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:13:57 +1300

It looks a lot like one of the teachers from my kids' school isn't coming back from her holiday. They aren't in her class, but a lot of their friends are.

David Mir

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:57:11 +1300

Just saw one of the surviving members of the Taufua family on the evening news... their beach fale business (along with the rest of the village) has been flattenned, and half the family have been killed. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Gareth Ward

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:25:30 +1300

My sister and I stayed at Coconuts last year, in an overwater fale that is almost certainly destroyed now. It's a strange feeling.

Isn't it? My (now) wife and I stayed on Railay Beach for some time in 2004 a few weeks before the Boxing Day tsunami. It's a small…

David Mir

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:15:27 +1300

We visited Samoa almost exactly a year ago, and it's been guit-wrenching seeing the devastation at many of the places we visited. Taufua Beach Fales at Lalomanu has been destroyed, and five members of the family that own it killed.
The boat that I went diving from on the south…

Mellopuffy

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:17:00 +1300

My cousin's brother in law has lost 5 members of his adopted family, she has said to donate to The Red Cross, for the same reason as above.

Please donate, some people have lost more than everything...

Raymond A Francis

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:06:03 +1300

Regarding the Boxing Day Tsunami my memory is that although it was obviously a BIG shake it took some time for the for the enormity of the wave and loss of life to filter through

Likewise with Samoa there didn’t seem to be any links in place
Certainly it is…

simon g

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:33:57 +1300

But no – our public broadcaster let us down.

After the Boxing Day Tsunami, not one minute of TV coverage was added to the schedule. Not one programme was dumped or delayed.

The key word was not "Tsunami", but "Boxing Day". Hundreds of thousands of dead, but still – it…

Joanna

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:36:54 +1300

My sister and I stayed at Coconuts last year, in an overwater fale that is almost certainly destroyed now. It's a strange feeling.

Andre

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:03:53 +1300

My partner is half-Samoan and has dozens of relatives there, many of whom have been affected by the tsunami. We found it difficult contacting them directly and had to rely on NZ media to find out what had happened. It started with Deborah Hill Cone and others on facebook questioning…

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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:03:53 +1300

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