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Originally Posted by gary

So many sad stories have emerged.

On SBS News last night, there was a poignant interview of a Fire Chief in one of
the sea-side towns. The large sea walls meant to stop a tsunami had huge steel gates
that were meant to be closed by powered systems in an emergency. The system
had failed and so the Fire Chief commanded his forty men to go down and close them
manually. They were unable to do so before the wave arrived and they were all swept
away. His entire crew. It was a decision the ashen looking Fire Chief said he regretted
making and would now have to live with for the rest of his life.

Damn!