Yoram Mizrachi
Direct link to this page: https://www.hayadan.org.il/yhtsunami.html
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Collecting a global response trend - will it happen here?
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As part of the madness, which accompanies almost every area of people's lives and their fate, the strange and crazy convictions of tsunami-stricken governments, which did nothing to warn coastal populations, are depicted. At the top of the list of the ignored is the Thai government. It turns out that immediately after the noise was registered, the government received warning information but did not take any action. The reason for the crazy act…. Not to scare tourists and hope it won't happen with us.
In second place is the unknown from Maine/Burma. The country that for years has been under the steel hoops of a military sect. Information about the dimensions of the disaster there, comes only sparingly. Here is news about a group of experts on any matter. Turkish citizens, curious who approached the shore to see receding water and were scooped up. There is also a horror story of an American journalist in search of a vacationer from Wisconsin, who stayed on the beach of one of the islands. The man tells how he and his friends sat in the restaurant of a small hotel "we chatted and laughed about ha and da." Only our guide remained silent," the man said. "A cloud passed over the face of the guide who was watching the sea. I noticed that there was absolute silence all around, even the birds had disappeared and the guide commented - this is not good, really not good and urged us to leave the restaurant, move to a relatively higher place then the tsunami hit which completely destroyed almost everything that was built, placed or planted on the island" scientists examining The Galal data, including satellite images, say that the silent Mayenmer is the area that was hit more than others, but the omnipotent generals are silent. Dictatorial madness for everything.
It won't happen with us
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The sequence of information coming from the disaster countries deals, of course, with the aspect of human suffering and geographical change brought about by the great flood. Photographs and video tapes, which reach the wider world on the cameras of tourists who were rescued, gave or sold tapes to the television networks, bring the tsunami into every home and continue to fascinate a new world.
The common media occupation does not need "super-public relations" to promote a subject, which will be among the most amazing in the recorded and recorded history of the world and the human race. However, the fact stands out that people do not change their customs and generally wake up quickly from the blows of fear and terror. A quick survey conducted by one of North America's radio stations focused on residents of coastal areas. The station turned to Mzania and also contacted the citizens of other countries to check, in a popular way, how they react to a tsunami risk, for example London or New York, mainly at the end of the first 72 hours. The survey showed that among the coastal population the feeling of "it won't happen to us" has not changed and the residents who were asked did not sound worried. During the survey, one of the heads of the World Health Organization dealing with sanitary preparedness was interviewed, who said, among other things, "A significant portion of the largest cities in the world sit on the shores of oceans or large lakes, and in many countries, such as the United States, the majority of the population lives on coastal strips, in each of which live dozens Millions. This population is not prepared for a tsunami, any more than in Thailand or Aceh and the devastation could be a threat. When the interviewer, who was apparently frightened by what the city heard "that the majority of the downtown's population lives in rigid buildings than those on the beaches of Thailand" the interviewee replied that rigid construction only provides a certain security "and that even if an office or residential tower does not collapse - its residents will be exposed to secondary disasters, no less deadly "
The UN man brought as an example the distribution of population on the west and east coast of the United States, North and South America, Japan and island countries to prove that world population density is related, since the dawn of history, to the sea, or to large rivers and other bodies of water.
Among the respondents' responses, an identical, almost indifferent line stood out, showing not only continents but also cultures. In the non-scientific survey, it was found, among other things, that eight out of ten New Yorkers say in various formulations "we are not worried", the same number as the responses heard from Spain, Britain and Marseille and fewer from Tokyo where six out of ten Japanese respondents who are used to natural disasters said "that the tsunami raised the threshold of anxiety". By the way of the concentration of the material "to be worn" in a crazy coat, I conducted a short telephone survey with Israelis who live in the coastal plain and found that from Mashkelon to Nahariya and even from Eilat there is a decisive response of "it won't happen to us" all of this combined with social responses, for example "no need to worry - we will manage ” and typical reactions of the type “whatever will be will be” or “everything is in the hands of God”.
The danger facing North America
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An English geologist who addressed the question "Can this happen in our provinces?" He spoke about one of Spain's Canary Islands, where an inactive volcano is found, but which has "alarming background data" and said that the eruption of the dormant mountain, or a loud noise itself, could lead to the detachment of a significant part of the island, which would fall into the sea and cause a tsunami that would hit the eastern shores within hours United States. Such a plume could drown New York or Montreal, the expert said. In a similar matter, a Greek newspaper wrote about the case of the explosion of the island of Santorini and the destruction of the Minoan culture, which in the Iron Age was partly destroyed by the crash of the island, which caused a regional holocaust, which affected the Mediterranean basin and, according to one theory, led to the creation of a temporary pedestrian crossing in the Red Sea. A miracle in the middle of a disaster, which allowed Moses to get himself out of Egypt. In today's Santorini, they reacted to the disaster that occurred these days in Asia, with a similar reaction... to that of the residents of Piraeus or Istanbul, who in total are among those of the world's population, who react by shrugging their shoulders. A citizen from Crete responded by commenting with the question "So what will we do to live in the Himalayas?"
How do the crazy people react?
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It seems that the mentally ill, especially the depressed and those who manage (with themselves) a "suicide flirtation" react indifferently to the possibility that they will risk their places. A Canadian psychiatrist of Argentinian origin, told as an example of indifference in the face of the danger of death, about a case in which a fire broke out in an Argentine hospital, which endangered hundreds of hospitalized patients, hospital staff, visitors and others. It turns out that during the alarm and the free time, against the background of the firemen's horns and the commotion - it was the psychiatric patients who stood out as not panicked, showed indifference to the sight of the flames and left the ward quietly and efficiently. After the free time, the patients answered the questions of the doctors and the faculty and were asked to comment on the fire. The nature of the responses was usually "So who cares if it burns?"
A fight in Indonesia...the preacher blamed the sins of humanity
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In one of the information centers in Jakarta, where thousands of foreigners and locals gather, seeking to find information about relatives or friends who were found in the disaster area, a fight broke out due to which a Muslim cleric, who had just left the Friday prayer, began to make a speech and preach, stating "that the flood is a punishment for the sins of humanity , deviation from the right path and submission to Western culture" the preacher was beaten and fled for his life, but the state newspapers published details of the Friday sermons in which the preachers stated "everything is from Allah as a punishment for the infidels" the type of response is not "Muslim only" preachers of other religions in the Muslim Christian Jewish world also came up on the wave and find a connection between the tsunami of 2004 and examples of a "divine warning to sinners" followed by a terrible revenge, for example the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
ride a python…
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A Thai woman and her two daughters were saved from drowning in the rising water, when they held on to a wooden beam floating near them. The beam was nothing but a large python snake, belonging to one of the bars where there was a stripper's "performance partner". The large snake was swept away from the collapsing night club and thus entered the book of strange tsunami-related rescues. A two-year-old toddler, who was carried away by her mother, was discovered by a relative who found her floating on a mattress that passed by his house. A resourceful Dutch tourist...inflated a large balloon doll that held him above the water and more. An interesting story is that of a taxi driver who was tempted to drive towards the beach, where curious people gathered who came to see how the sea receded just to... escape the returning wave. The driver who managed to start and drive while the rising water was "chasing" him, believed that he would not survive. Later when he got out of his car, he was surprised to find out that the flood swept him towards his house, where the car got stuck on the flooded ground floor and when he got out of the car he saw his wife and children sitting on the roof above him.
Thieves and looters
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Thai police said the disaster attracts criminals and others hoping to take advantage of the desolation to the areas of death and destruction. The perpetrators disguise themselves as rescue volunteers, or just good souls, and by the way, "rescue and good deeds" steal jewelry, watches and wallets that they discover on the bodies of the perishing, or in destroyed houses. In one case, thieves were arrested in the Phuket area who raided wrecked or abandoned cars and stole parts, accessories and property they found in the vehicles. In Sri Lanka, a police officer was arrested, after it was discovered that he used bottled drinking water, which arrived on the island as part of an aid package, to... wash his house and car. Similar stories, which appear with high frequency, also indicate weak or characterless people, who rush to take advantage of disasters to loot and steal. The governor of A'tsa province (Indonesia) warned that his soldiers "will use firearms to kill, without warning, looters who try to escape". An Australian survivor, who arrived at a free center on one of the islands of Sri Lanka and received medical treatment, explained that the cuts on his chest and one of his arms were not just the result of drifting in water full of scraps and broken houses, but the work of two guys, who took him out of the water and asked for compensation for their actions. When the survivor said he had no money, one of the rescuers used his knife to "convince" the survivor to give up a gold pendant, a ring and a Rolex watch.
Hi-this is my elephant!
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A Thai show elephant owner who managed to climb a telephone pole, where he waited for rescue, was amazed to see one of his elephants swimming in the murky water with a stranger on his back "He stole the elephant from me and did not respond when I suggested that it was my elephant" complained the man who, as the water receded and the height of the flood receded, staggered to complain at the station Police, only to find that only the roof survived from the station, which floated and got stuck between nearby trees. Stories of floating or swimming elephants also came from Sri Lanka and India. Unfortunately, the descriptions included stories about elephants that perished, or suffered serious injuries that had to be euthanized. The question of animal behavior, which along with humans fell victim to the tsunami, is already preoccupying researchers. The interest in animal behavior is related to the fact that many eyewitnesses to the damaging wave or rescue service personnel reported from the disaster countries that most of the animals disappeared. Various descriptions give an explanation about "a strange feature among the animals, that shortly before the signs of the tsunami appeared they escaped from the beach" one of the estimates is that the animals responded to a "genetic memory code" also defined as a "sixth sense" features that warned them of an impending holocaust. One of the people in charge of rescue operations, said in New Delhi that he has no doubt that "we will have to investigate and learn how the animals knew how to get away in time" to teach us that in matters of a tsunami, a person is allowed from an animal...that the animal knows when to flee when the mortal runs to get the video camera.
