Hi
Today Morning I got this most appalling news from one of my friends.
Below are the Excerpt from the Colombo Times.
On 26th Dec’04 early morning several hrs before the catastrophy happened, Honolulu Tsunami Monitoring center have been trying to call our Meteorological Dept. monitoring center in Palekelle and Colombo but failed. They also got in touch with presidents’ office however it was
informed that she’s out of the island on a private vacation.
Finally they called Prime minister’s secretariat, but Prime minister was out on his morning walk. Thinking at least it’s best to keep him vigilant on this, the Honolulu officials left the message with the person who picked up the phone to inform Prime minister that there’s a Tsunami coming from Indonesia.
On prime minister’s return, the operator told prime minister about the call, said T. Sunami from Indonesia.
It seems this kind of Lapses occurs everywhere in world.Ceylon is worst affected by Tsunami.Honolulu officials should have communicated in a better way so this disaster could have been avoided.