Ocean Ghost
Blog 2/24
How many pictures can I take of the widespread tsunami destruction in Banda Aceh? This densely populated area is only about a ¼ mile from the beach. Even though most of the construction is steel and concrete, the houses were leveled flat and their foundations blasted clean. Anything not heavy was carried away to some distant spot.
The wall of this hospital was blown out and all its contents are gone including patients that were being cared for. This car, rolled, crushed and pulverized, somehow got washed inside the building and settled here. The Indonesian graffiti says “ocean ghost”.
This next amazing scene is difficult to capture in a picture. Here, in a kampung (Indonesian village), amidst destroyed houses, a large barge was swept in a mile or more by the mighty rush of sea water. According to locals, it is sitting on 7 crushed houses and a car with occupants.
How many pictures can I take of the widespread tsunami destruction in Banda Aceh? This densely populated area is only about a ¼ mile from the beach. Even though most of the construction is steel and concrete, the houses were leveled flat and their foundations blasted clean. Anything not heavy was carried away to some distant spot.
The wall of this hospital was blown out and all its contents are gone including patients that were being cared for. This car, rolled, crushed and pulverized, somehow got washed inside the building and settled here. The Indonesian graffiti says “ocean ghost”.
This next amazing scene is difficult to capture in a picture. Here, in a kampung (Indonesian village), amidst destroyed houses, a large barge was swept in a mile or more by the mighty rush of sea water. According to locals, it is sitting on 7 crushed houses and a car with occupants.
posted by Dave Ketcham at 3:46 PM
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