I'm laying in bed watching TV and checking out a few things on the web with my laptop before going to sleep.
On TV is a program on the Tsunami which hit a year ago. Its an Australian program so I guess a lot of you wont get to see it and its seems mostly on Aceh and Somatra.
There is still so much damage to repair and so many people are still living in tents through Indonesia.
I find it amazing that interviewing people about the earthquake before the tsunami was nearly 10 minutes long and one girl in Aceh thought it was the end of the world as she described falling over and landing about a meter(3 feet) from where she tried to stand up during that 10 minutes.
I understand that most earthquakes only last for less than a minute.
The wall of water that hit must have been terrifying. A reporter was standing next to a 20 meter tower and the water knocked the beacon off the top. They estimated that the wave was about 30 meters at that location.
I am utterly amazed looking at at the damage this wave caused and these pictures are a year after the event.
The look of fear of the water on the kids faces is very real.
They mentioned something about 180,000 homes to rebuild, but I cant recall the exact statement.

When the Tsunami hit, I was driving through the streets of Adelaide, I had my eTrex GPS on the dash, and it went crazy. The maximum speed went up over 300km per hour. When I got back to my brothers house where I was staying about 2 hours later I learned about the tsunami. I cant logically explain why my GPS went crazy when this earthquake hit, the distance away should have provided a huge buffer, but that is the only time the GPS has done that.