Thailand fires top tsunami forecaster

[Dover]

I think they should drown this guy.....

Jan. 4, 2005, 12:43PM

Thailand fires top tsunami forecaster
Associated Press

BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand's top forecaster was removed from his job today for failing to issue a warning as huge waves barreled toward tourist resorts, the prime minister said.


The country's Meteorological Department has said that it knew about the huge earthquake that struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Dec. 26 — and that it might produce a dangerous surge of water along the country's southwest coast — about an hour before waves began slamming ashore.

But officials said they had no way to determine the size of the waves and therefore the threat they posed. They said they were reluctant to issue a warning without such information because it could harm the tourism industry, an action that could anger the government.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Suparerk Thantiratanawong, director general of the Meteorological Department, had been removed from his post for the failure.

"If he warned (of the tsunami), the death toll would definitely have been minimized," Thaksin said...cont'd

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/world/2977350

[wtmusic]

1. Close that barn door...

now that the horsies are gone! :P

[aquart]

3. Please. Our barn doors are still wide open.

ANYBODY lose a job after 9/11? Except us poor suckers in NY?

[Sandpiper]

2. If he worked for the Bush Administration he'd have kept his job

Just ask Condi.

[daleo]

4. And got a raise, promotion, and medal. n/t

[izzie]

6. Right.

Did I hear that most of the people who wanted a system put in were told they had not had one in a 100 years?Some of these people have been bring it up in these meeting for years, I think.

[OneBlueSky]

5. and STILL no one has been fired for 9/11 . . . n/t

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