Nature shows it's power :(

As we near 100.000 casualties from sunday's seaquake/tsunami disaster it seems safe to say that this is the biggest disaster in our recorded history.

Even though I keep seeing it over and over on tv and in newspapers it's still difficult to grasp the enormity of what happened last sunday.
Thai tv is not shy about showing the misery in all it's glory, so I've seen it all, decaying bodies floating in sea or lying in the streets, the mass graves with dozens of bodies, the video images of the flood sweeping away people desperately trying to keep above water...
I see it all, but it's just too big, too horrible to comprehend, 100.000 persons wiped away, whole villages, whole islands even, wiped clear.

Here in Thailand there will be three days of mourning for the victims, who include also a young prince, one of the King's grandsons who died last sunday.. at least nature holds no prejudices I guess, anybody can die.