Goodbye
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This will be my last post to this blog. I leave Banda Aceh tomorrow, flying to Medan, overnight, then on to Singapore, Taipei then LAX. I will have been gone 32 days when I get home and it will be wonderful to see my family again.
Sunday afternoon we explored along the west coast of north Sumatra about 20+ miles from Banda Aceh where the tsunami height was at its greatest according to reports. The road is heavily damaged or completely missing in many places and we had to travel slowly across gravel temporary roads and bridges.
Villages along this road are further from the main city of Banda Aceh and are of simpler construction and more vulnerable to the tsunami force. Many areas we pass through are completely wiped clean and those houses constructed of concrete and steel only leave their foundation. In what must have been beautiful coves of white sand beaches and swaying coconut palms are mud and debris. Looking across one bay it is easy to see the shear line where the tsunami wave cleaned off shrubs and trees from the rock outcroppings. This line looks to be perhaps 25 feet tall.
A large chuck of the asphalt on this bridge was lifted up in one piece and shifted left. The damaged railing is pulverized by the tsunami. Further back, on the rock hill, the tsunami ripped off vegetation more than 30 feet above the road.
Just to the left of where I took the above picture, 3 Indonesian boys were playing under the bridges. On request, I took their picture and were delighted to see themselves on the screen of my digital camera.
I trust that God has somehow used my time here to make a difference in these people’s lives.
Me on the left during the relief flight with Tim.
This will be my last post to this blog. I leave Banda Aceh tomorrow, flying to Medan, overnight, then on to Singapore, Taipei then LAX. I will have been gone 32 days when I get home and it will be wonderful to see my family again.
Sunday afternoon we explored along the west coast of north Sumatra about 20+ miles from Banda Aceh where the tsunami height was at its greatest according to reports. The road is heavily damaged or completely missing in many places and we had to travel slowly across gravel temporary roads and bridges.
Villages along this road are further from the main city of Banda Aceh and are of simpler construction and more vulnerable to the tsunami force. Many areas we pass through are completely wiped clean and those houses constructed of concrete and steel only leave their foundation. In what must have been beautiful coves of white sand beaches and swaying coconut palms are mud and debris. Looking across one bay it is easy to see the shear line where the tsunami wave cleaned off shrubs and trees from the rock outcroppings. This line looks to be perhaps 25 feet tall.
A large chuck of the asphalt on this bridge was lifted up in one piece and shifted left. The damaged railing is pulverized by the tsunami. Further back, on the rock hill, the tsunami ripped off vegetation more than 30 feet above the road.
Just to the left of where I took the above picture, 3 Indonesian boys were playing under the bridges. On request, I took their picture and were delighted to see themselves on the screen of my digital camera.
I trust that God has somehow used my time here to make a difference in these people’s lives.
Me on the left during the relief flight with Tim.
posted by Dave Ketcham at 12:25 AM
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