9 U.S. towns ready for Atlantic tsunami
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Standing outside his home 100 yards from the Atlantic Ocean, John T. Woods III has a hard time imagining it &#151; a towering tidal wave one day crashing over the dock where a lone fisherman recently cast his line.
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By Mari A. Schaefer, The Philadelphia Inquirer  May 27--ATLANTIC CITY -- With large holiday crowds predicted to hit the Shore this weekend, you might have expected to see the waters off Atlantic City beaches filled with swimmers -- especially on a beautiful 90-degree day like yesterday.
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com. A number of local relief efforts from a wide variety of local communities have sprung up around the island for victims of the Asian tsunami catastrophe.
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Anu Gopalakrishnan spoke to her mother and friends in the southeastern Indian city of Madras, but a grim uncertainty looms for many immigrant communities in the U.S. as they await word after tsunamis ravaged nine countries.
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The United States needs serious repairs to its tsunami warning system, including the replacement of three warning buoys off Alaska, officials said on Wednesday.
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Top News News, New Delhi,India made it clear Thursday that it was ready to join a US-proposed coordination group to tackle the tsunami disaster in South and Southeast Asia.
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Thousands of Americans were caught in the Asian tsunami devastation, and many have been recounting their ordeals in interviews and in e-mails home this week. Fourteen Americans died in the disaster, and the number is sure to rise as authorities get a clearer picture of the devastation.
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The Azores islands in the mid-Atlantic have been placed on high alert for Hurricane Gordon.
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A wall of water up to 55 yards high crashing into the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, flattening everything in its path -- not a Hollywood movie but a dire prophecy by some British and U.S. academics.
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It's a version of Seaside &#151; carefully created at a fraction of its actual size &#151; just waiting to be slammed by a tsunami.
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Relief efforts are under way around the northern rim of the Indian Ocean, where tsunamis devastated low-lying villages and towns Sunday, killing thousands.
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A tsunami striking the U.S. is not a question of if but when
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Congress will consider a &#36;30 million network of buoys, wave gauges and seismic sensors to warn of tsunamis globally, a plan that would build on U.S. and international efforts to avert another catastrophe.
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A tsunami striking the U.S. is not a question of if, but when
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. forces said they  were prepared to wind down tsunami relief efforts in Asia  despite fears that some survivors were still desperate for help  after a disaster that killed more than 226,000 people.
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Editor&#39;s note: The following e-mail exchange comes from Elizabeth &quot;Betty&quot; Magee, who recently moved to Fort Myers. Her brother, Brian Peace, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was in Phuket, Thailand when the tsunami struck the region.
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The United States upped its tsunami relief aid tenfold Friday as the world's ships and planes converged on devastated shores. Bottlenecks of supplies built up, fears of epidemics grew, and in an echo of 9/11's aftermath, people at a Thai resort scoured a bulletin board of 4,000 photos in search of the dead and missing.