Through Blood and Darkness To the Light beyond

Asia wakes up to see the full extent of the destruction wrought by yesterdays Tsunami . As predicted by me in the previous post the Car Nicobar islands have been the worst affected of all the regions in India due to their proximity to the epicenter of the quake.Lifes have been lost even in as far as Somalia in Africa which gives an idea of the sheer magnitude of this natural disaster. There has been widespread death and destruction in Sri Lanka ,huge swathes of land have been decimated with the walls of water sweeping away anything in their way.Elsewhere in Aceh province of Indonesia a humanitarian crisis is slowly unfolding .All this because we don't have adequate Tsunami warning system in place? Its such a shame that we invest in billions of dollars for so called "National security" and we don't have a simple Tsunami warning facility .And the excuse for this is that Tsunami's are not supposed to occur in this region of the world.What they fail to realise is that there always is a first time.The most devastating wave struck India a full hour after the Earth Quake and the tide hit Africa after almost a day after the quake, but still loss of life (forget about property) couldn't be averted. This speaks volumes about human incompetence in not predicting the predictable.A common characteristic of all man made crises is their predictability in retrospect and this makes it all the more painful for missing the obvious. For the time being though its the Forces of nature that have to be faced.