holy tsunami

[Eckels]

I kinda stumbled over these satellite photos... incredible ones...

most notably:
http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/tsunami/srilanka_kalutara_flood_dec26_2004_dg.jpg

Incredible...

Check em out:
http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html

To compare some of the destruction, I created a handy animated GIF (1.6mb). http://www.zeldaclassic.com/eckels/eckels/tsunami.gif

[phattonez]

That animated .gif is great, seeing land being taken away is a spectacle. When I first saw the first picture, I thought it was fake, but seeing the url, I thought it was unlikely, and was amazed at how high it was.

[Lilith]

Holy crap, that's terrifiying...large bodies of water freak me out, I have bad dreams about tsunamis/oceans/floods etc...eeeek.