Comments on: Indian bureaucracy fumbled tsunami warning http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2004/12/31/indian_bureaucr/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: anonymous http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2004/12/31/indian_bureaucr/comment-page-1/#comment-2648 anonymous Sat, 01 Jan 2005 13:15:44 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=860#comment-2648 <p>From the <a href="http://www.didjital.com/">didjital</a> mailing:</p> <p>"What angers me is that there WERE natural warning signs (fisherman were experiencing mackerel catches <em>20 times</em> normal, and scientists say this is a typical warning sign), and this WAS preventable (coastal mangrove forests, natural buffers for waves, have been destroyed to make room for tourism and cheap consumer shrimp)."</p> From the didjital mailing:

“What angers me is that there WERE natural warning signs (fisherman were experiencing mackerel catches 20 times normal, and scientists say this is a typical warning sign), and this WAS preventable (coastal mangrove forests, natural buffers for waves, have been destroyed to make room for tourism and cheap consumer shrimp).”

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