Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/29

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Subject: [Leica] Re: OT Tsunami Foto Sequence
From: dorysrus at mindspring.com (Don Dory)
Date: Wed Dec 29 04:43:16 2004

Sander,
I am glad that you and yours are hale and hearty.  As you said, what are
a few life possessions in the bargain?  Continued good fortune to you
and prayers for all those whose friends and families, parents and
children are somewhere in the sea.

Don
dorysrus@mindspring.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Sander van Hulsenbeek
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 3:44 AM
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] Re: OT Tsunami Foto Sequence

Thanks,

We were in Sri Lanka and witnessed the same. Had we not gone for
breakfast 
and stayed in our groundfloor room 5 minutes longer, this mail would not

have been sent.

Sorry: no photo's: all gear (M7, 4 lenses, 2 digicameras) washed out to
sea. 
But we are unharmed, and what are a few camera's then?

An other hotelguest took some pictures and if I get them I will post
them. 
But what we saw was prtty similar to the pictures Dan pointed too.

The devastation on the Sri Lanka Southcoast was terribel. We saw very
little 
as the police closed off the hotel area. Perhaps for the better. We
waited a 
day and a half on a little hill next to the hotel, slept in a monastery,
and 
then were evacuated.

During the nightly busride, and only where the bus was allowed on the 
coastal road, we saw chaos everywhere. A sight not to forget.

Sander van Hulsenbeek
Amsterdam
Holland



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