regarding mangroves in Bangladesh: The name of the area I was thinking of is the Sundarbans. It's a Natural World Heritage area. http://www.the-south-asian.com/Nov2002/Sundarbans.htm
It'll sift the power out of a tsunami easily. :-) Hopefully, none of the oil installastions off the coast of Bangladesh went leaky from the quake. Apparently it was at about 7 on Richter's even in Bangladesh. Jostein Quoting mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am somewhat puzled by the apparent lack of damage to Bangladesh. Has > anyone found any information about it? > > mike > > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > No, we will not be less affluent, rather, we will be the richer for it. > > > > Shel > > > > > > > >>[Original Message] > >>From: Carlos Royo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > >>Powell Hargrave escribió: > >> > >>>As we enjoy our Christmas presents and play with our expensive > > > > photographic > > > >>>toys we are all secure in tomorrow. If we all give some to those > > > > suffering > > > >>>in Asia we will still be enjoying life tomorrow even if a tiny amount > > > > less > > > >>>affluent. > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.