EARTHQUAKE AND TIDAL WAVES IN S.E.ASIA WHERE IS LOU33??

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DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE LOU33 IS?

IS SHE BY THE COAST?

THIALAND,

MALDIVES under water we loved them when we were there 3 years ago.

EARTHQUAKE AND VERY FAST TIDAL WAVES REALLY AWFUL

Great to hear from you again LOU. Give a Happy Birthday hig to dd from me.

Was told yesterday that my ex dh went to Thailand for Christmas as he does every year since we split. Not one knows exactly where he went not even his mother.

Disasters Emergency Appeal number: 0870 60 60 900 great idea twiglett

great to hear from you LOU and happy birthday to DD

hope you find out about your friends

good to hear from you lou (even thou i dont even know you!) hope you can enjoy the rest of the holiday xxxxxxxxxx

Thanks for posting again, lou! Happy birthday to DD2

Hope you get good news about your friends in libong. There have been TV news items of people landing back in the UK, and they all start crying when they mention friends they made who are missing, it's heartbreaking. Every day the news gets worse.

Lou, it's really good to get your updates - and it's lovely to hear that you and the dd's are mucking in and helping, really heart-warming. Happy birthday to dd2 It sounds like the locals have taken you to their hearts (how could they do otherwise?!)

I keep seeing the news and thinking of you in the middle of it all. You take care (((hugs)))

Bumping this up as a reminder to donate if you possibly can.

To the Disaster Appeal Fund or I donated on the British Red Cross website.

Thanks for the update lou. I am so pleased you and your family are safe. A big happy birthday to dd2. Hugs to you all Blossomhillxxx

Where is my uncle ???
Thinking of you lou and keep remembering that list you wrote of the disastersa that have taken place everytime you go away, you poor thing, hate to imagine the atmosphere, take care x

This Red Cross page explains why they need money, not goods, and this BBC page lists what's happening so far from the UK.

FF, where is your uncle? Is he out there?

Weirdly enough he just rang, he is out there, he travels round thailand for winter every year and has done for 25 years. We didn't know where he was spending christmas day as he hadn't decided. He is in Phuket and fine. Didn't really have time to talk much, he is obviously in a bit of a state as he has many friends he cant get hold of. I was obviously starting to think the worst with him taking so long to contact, but thanks god he was one of the lucky ones.
Many people we know are starting to get in touch now, just one more person to hear from. I hope all mumsnetters, their families and friends are ok.

Firstly, Glad to see you're all ok Lou, Happy Birthday to your DD. It's lovely to read that they are helping out too, What lovely children you have

Now secondly,
I took a car boot full of stuff to Oxfam this morning expecting to have to join a long queue of people who felt just like me and wanted to do all they could to help.

How wrong I was

I took the stuff through the shop into the stock room and spoke to a lady who works there. She said it's been very quiet with no donations and they are in dire need. I couldn't believe it, it reduced me to tears again when I told her how I felt I had to do something, especially after the images of the man and woman I saw on the news last night.
Apparently I was the first person to donate since before Xmas, she was over joyed to receive the first lot and when I walked back through the door with another load she almost jumped for joy.

Even without this awful, awful disaster are people around here so wrapped up in their own lives that they don't think of others too.

so glad you are all safe Lou. Happy birthday to dd2. thanks for keeping us posted.

got in touch with my HR dept today and we're going to start fund raising, but have to get the go ahead from the powers that be to get it all organised and that won't be until next week. We didn't give out cards this year and donated money to antony nolan instead, about £800 and I was hoping we may have been able to give that to the red cross too but we're not going to be able to now sadly. Its so tragic cannot believe how many lives that have been lost just like that

Emma, I hope it's just that people are giving cash instead.

I just gave a donation to the American Red Cross in memory of my husband.

I never thought I would say that the circumstances of his death almost seem to pale into insignificance now...

I hope so too kate.

I really admire you for that post, Kate. You are obviously a lovely person.

emmatmg: and yet when we were trying to give a box of good quality donations just before Christmas, it took dh travelling round 4 different charity shops before he found one that would accept them round us - one even told him that most of the stuff would probably just get chucked because they were overwhelmed .

Fortunatley we're regular clear out/charity shop donors anyway, but if we had only been a one-off donor we'd have been completely put off from ever donating again I think...

a friend of mine is a manager at the heart foundation charity shop and she says alot of the stuff is chucked as they get so much of it and alot because it is just not good enough quality to sell. They have a man that comes and takes away bags and bags of clothing which is made into rags, not sure why.

Glad you and yours are safe Lou

Hope you find good news about your friends real soon.

Glad you're OK lou33 (are you 34 yet ) We've been giving loads of stuff to charity shops recently - always wondered if they get anything for the rags? Some of my old clothes are definietly not suitable for sale but I'd hoped the rag man might give them something? Anyway at least I've tried to recycle it. We couldn't find anywhere to take our 3 in 1 and it was very hard to find a shop to take anything electrical.

Sorry about the mistyping - and on a thread about lou

please donate everyone, I'm sure we all spent more than we needed to this christmas
Disasters Emergency Appeal number:
0870 60 60 900

I know everyone is upset, and I am, too. We happen to have a Malaysian chap staying with us, too. But don't forget about the other tragedies in the world, some other Daily death tolls for example:
AIDS: 8200
Diabetes: 8800
Malaria: Over 7000
Traffic accidents: 3200

Maybe this is my excuse for not going to CentreParcs this year.

Daily, zebra?

I remember reading that the annual death toll from road accidents in the US was greater than all the losses in the Vietnam war over years and years. Still, it's the concentration here that gets to you, isn't it?

I think it is the fact that people have lost their children, families, friends, homes, jobs, food,lifestyle, future, surrounded by corpses and a huge risk of disease that makes it a tragedy of unbearable proportions with no insight into the mass effect it will have on society. As terrible and devestating as those daily death tolls, it is beyond comprehension how you would cope with loosing everything and everyone in and outside your home and how someone begins to rebuild a future after this is something none of us know.

Where was God?!