BREAKING NEWS
MENTAWAI ISLANDS, Indonesia —
FROM MEDIA REPORTS
It is literally hell on earth in the island nation of Indonesia today.
Helicopters with emergency supplies finally landed Wednesday on the remote Indonesian islands slammed by a tsunami that killed more than 300 people, while elsewhere in the archipelago the toll from a volcanic eruption rose to 30, including the mountain's spiritual caretaker.
Call it "Mother's Nature Triple Threat." Earthquake. Tsunami. Volcano.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cut short a state visit to Vietnam to deal with the dual disasters that struck Indonesia in one 24-hour period, straining the country's ability to respond.
The first aerial surveys of the region hit by the 10-foot (three-meter) tsunami revealed huge swaths of land underwater and the crumbled rubble of homes torn apart by the wave. One house lay tilted, resting on the edge of its red roof, with tires and slabs of concrete piled up on the surrounding sand.
Scary, scary, scary times in that part of the world....
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