A female survivour of the terrible train wreck (with 1,500 aboard) in Sri Lanka was an Adventist. She will have quite a story to tell. Another Adventist, however, perished.

Most SDA news sources talk about ADRA. ADRA can't spend its time accounting for and helping Adventists. They have to be shown to be impartial, otherwise they will lose their charitable status. We're getting our news and help from those who, unfortunately, have family members who are affected.

Here is a link to some pictures:

http://coreykoberg.com/Tsunami/

Some more "inside" information came to me recently.

People in Calle, Sri Lanka, had much of their town saved by an old Dutch fort that separated the waters away from the houses in their town. The waters converged later on, however, and threw all of their force on a bus stop. That is why early news pictures from Sri Lanka show so many busses carried away by the streams of water.

There are some amazing -- almost horrifying -- satellite photos at

http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/1.html

A lot of these photos I've seen already, but the way they're done, it's remarkable. You can click a button to get a before-and-after view instantaneously. Very sobering, especially the pictures of Banda Aceh and the Gleebruk village.