cuddalore online information

More from Mikhail Rebrov’s ‘Save our Earth’:'”Twenty thousand years ago ,in the Ice Age , a glacier blocked the river flowing across the present state of Washington,to form a glacial lake behind this natural dam.With an area of eight thousand square kilometers,it had half the water mass of Lake Michigan today.Little by little,water undercut the glacier making it unsteady and eventually the day came when the ice dam collapsed,abruptly and all at once,the lake spured through the breach hurtling down nearly 400 thousand cubic meters per hour.In less than an week the lake emptied in fierce torrents of waves leaving behind 180 square kilometers of disfigured stony deserts.”

Here are the words of Mikhail Rebrov from his book ‘Save Our Earth’: “….some volcanoes wake up all too abruptly, as did the now famous Krakatoa in the familiar and well-documented eruption late in past century. As with the saint Helens event in which magma poured out twenty times,this volcano at Krakatoa Island (Indonesia) continued to erupt through 26 and 27 August 1883. It set off a huge tsunami wave about 33 meters high. At the bullet-train speed of about 500 kilometers per hour it charged over the ocean to overwhelm the nearby islands, leaving almost 50 thousand dead.
…A small islet called Thera slightly northward of it is established beyond doubt to have suffered a major calamity roughly between 1700 and 1450 BC. It left in the sea a tiny crescent-shaped islet, formerly the eastern portion of the volcano which Thera properly had been. That period saw the beginning to of decay of the Minoan state. Ols sources relate that the chain of earthquakes in the aftermath of the eruption demolished all buildings in the interiors of the neighboring islands and tsunamis washed off the coastal towns.Enormous waves and floods hit away at spacious territories.”

I read this book three 3 years ago. By then I could visualize things as easily as I do today. I first came to know about tsunami waves some 7 years back, but I never imagined that it would hit my home town.

yeah Lawrence Road shrunk to 3 feet outside the Railway Cycle stand because of the stones and sand dumped there for laying road.It remains there for more than a week.Neither the road is laid nor the those materials are removed.

The roadside park setup at the entrance of the Government Headquarters Hospital in Cuddalore turned gambling arena for the auto rickshaw drivers of the neighbouring stand.Nowadays the park is not maintained properly and plants are drying out without water.

I hope the blog http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com is worth mentioning here.

It seems police Department has craeted a new website http://tsunami.nagapattinampolice.info
Really good effort.But more atention need to be taken while designing sites from public.The flash animation displaying ‘tsunami.nagapattinampolice.info’ is irritating.I wonder why they should add such an animation to a site which is decated to the victims of a natural calamity.
Also most the links are broken in the Unidentified Bodies section.

Sri Lankan Radio reported that LTTE head Mr.Prabakaran was washed away by tsunami and some 5000 thousand trops are washed away.But LTTE denied this and added that only 5 of its army members were dead.A BBC correspondent reproted that Regiment 23 in Mattakallapu area was completely washed away and the arms thrown out along with debris of the destructed houses and so it seems LTTE has advised people to not to go to their villages until the scatered arms are compltely removed.To listen to the Tamil News from BBC follow the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/tamil/

Here are some of the notable pionts from a debate on NDTV:

Mr.Kapil Sipal (Minister of Sci&Tech)He said (1)Decated frequency to serve people during natural disaster (2)civic society must not compromise their own saftey while building/buying houses.

Mihir Bhatt(Disaster Mitigation Institute) He said that in times of disaster among the different level of communications, the conveying of info. between the District Collector and the public takes more time because of the poor alarming system.

Dr.R.K.Pachauri(TERI & Energy specialist) He begun to say something about the mangrove forests but this topic was completely lost on the debate.

Fr.Thomas Kocherry(World Forum of Fisheries People) He said that the disaster in such a massive scale could have been avoided if the Supreme court recommendations have been followed.

More importantly Kapil Sibal while answering a question by saying that the warning on Thursday following tsunami on Sunday was as a give on seeing a TV Flash News…..lol…..

Days of last day were the sadest days in the town’s history.I thought all other developement works will come to a stand still.Thanks to District Administrator Mr.Gagandeep Singh Bedi ‘The Father of Modern Cuddalore’.The beautification process and the other development projects has begun in full swing.

Tsunami left many children orphan.Cuddalore District Collector Er.Gagan Deep Singh Bedi in an interveiw in NDTV said there about 25 children left without parents and added that he will help people those who are willing to adopt those children by refering them to Social Welfare Department.I presently dont have the excate postal address Camp Office.I will get you all soon.Please help the Administration by spreading the word.I have decided to make use of the Groups and Chat rooms.Yeah… at this point everyone has to carefull about the child trafficers.

Hi make use of All India Radio’s Helpline service to find the missing people after tsunami.Here is their email address: helpline@air.org.in