First thanks to everybody for your warming comments. Yesterday I spent most of the day trying to help people in hospitals. It's a difficult job to comfort people who are such in shock, surely when you are not a professional on the matter. Lot of stories to account for, some with happy endings, but most of the time unhappy news. I think it's a terrible thing to have no knowledge about a missing relative. I spent some hours with Leo, from Belgium. He is absolutly sure his wife is still alive, he swear he saw her in an hotel room close to him. But today we still have no news from her. An Irish family has also been reunited after being separated fro hours, fearing the worst for each other. A Dutch old man living in Australia, escaped from his flooded room, but sadly has to let his wife drowned in the room. They were married for 33 years. It seems also this morning that a lot of Europeans are missing, and probably more than you can hear on television. A lot of news have to come from the remote island around Phuket and this doesn't seems to be good news. The life here anyway continue, and only the beaches showed the magnitude of the destruction. My wife is actually at the City hall in Phuket, to keep a desk information for the missing Irish people, and I will join her later on. Hundreds of Irish are still missing. I heard also that in north west of Phuket island, close to a national park, a lot of bodies are still there on th ground, eventually hanging in the trees. Of course, I also give my sympathy for the locals, most of the dead being fishermen.
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