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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Auric Hellman Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: Re: tsunami that killed over 200,000 Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 23:13:23 -0500 Organization: Sons of Rhodesia Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 05:13:23 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c66b98eb112ac57a86c19e4bd3444af1"; logging-data="3595852"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+tJoA+0HP6ErDBRyWX+EWpbLLHt1z8VTA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:6hAf2Anid7AMnJTEKjYAL8AjCsk= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 241226-4, 12/26/2024), Outbound message In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2138 On 12/26/2024 9:17 PM, JAB wrote: > Prayers, tears mark 20 years since Indian Ocean tsunami that killed > over 200,000 > > People are gathering in prayer and visiting mass graves in Indonesia's > Aceh province to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami, > one of modern history's worst natural disasters > ... > ... > The powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of > Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that killed around > 230,000 people across a dozen countries, reaching as far as East > Africa. Some 1.7 million people were displaced, mostly in the four > worst-affected countries: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. > > More than 170,000 people died in Indonesia alone. > > https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/prayers-tears-mark-20-years-indian-ocean-tsunami-117109586 It's both sad and ironic that the worst natural disasters always seem to occur in the poorest countries with the most wretched people. -- Dr. Auric D. Hellman adhellman1@gmail.com