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2005/2/24 [Science/Disaster] UID:36405 Activity:nil 58%like:36406
2/24    If you were on the beach, would you have underestimated the power
        of the tsunami as well?  Be honest.
        http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/02/23/international/i185139S54.DTL
        \_ To be honest, yeah, I probably would have.  This reminds me of
           rant by a black guy saying the white people are so sheltered
           that they never expect anything bad to happen to them; so they
           don't run in situations like this.
        \_ This is depressing. It reminds me of The Far Side where the big
           python just ate something really huge, and the parrot keeps saying
           "Molly wants a cracker. Don't eat me, don't eat me, ahhhhh!
            Molly wants a cracker."
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Email This Article (02-24) 00:44 PST VANCOUVER, (AP) -- Photographs from the camera of a Canadian couple killed in Asia's tsunami include their final shots of a huge wave as it rushed toward them at th eir beach resort in Thailand. John and Jackie Knill of North Vancouver, frequent visitors to the popula r Thai resort, Khao Lak, were apparently on the beach when the tsunami h it Dec. The couple disappeared and relatives say they were notified about a week ago that the identities of their remains had been confirmed. Searchers later also recovered the couple's destroyed digital camera but were able to print photos from its memory card. In a sequence of photos over the course of a few minutes, some curious on lookers are shown wandering onto suddenly exposed tidal flats, a sign of the impending tsunami. In one, a large wave appears to be breaking in t he distance. The pictures show that within minutes, the wave grows larger and some bea chgoers begin to take notice. "I don't know why they didn't run," their son Christian Knill told Global TV in Vancouver. "Either they knew they couldn't or they didn't know th e power of the wave." A photo taken at 8:30 am shows a wall of water churning up sand and mud . A final shot a couple of minutes later shows the tsunami hitting the b each. In all, 12 Canadians were confirmed killed by the tsunami, most of them i n Thailand, and 13 people remained unaccounted for as of last week.