Skip wrote in news:60KAd.4080$e77.3733
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Fuzzy Logic wrote:

WaIIy wrote in
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:06:32 GMT, Skip VerDuin
wrote:

Today I hear the US
(maybe USGS or NOAA) says "there was nothing we could do even though we
knew for hours it was going to happen" so maybe these agencies need a
swift kick to change an attitude.

What would you have them do?

The infrastructure to warn the people it affected is not in place.

Here is a good article on the lack of infrastructure for the warning:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2...ing_usat_x.htm


Excellent reference Fuzzy, it turns "nothing we could do" into "did what
we could".
Even though a part of the world was looking at a "loaded gun".
Next I'll look at your other post which may be more on topic than this
thread is going.

Here is NOAA's statement on how events transpired:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2358.htm