"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote in
ups.com:

wow...good luck to all sailors / crusers in the effected areas...so far
us media is reporting 10 countries effected..(all the way to africa)...
50,000+ dead, 1/3 of them children......the images we are getting
are un-real.........nature can be so powerful.......

An exellent animation is available from NOAA:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/video/t...onesia2004.mov