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Wow, thats amazing. Good for them, raise so much money for tsunami relief, I would love to do something like that. They have a very good heart, yeah, but 225 dollars?! WOW! I wonder how much money they would make if it wasn't for tsunami victims...

If it's anything like the lemonade stand I used to have, only twenty bucks a day.

The tsunami thing still has me absolutely astounded. I mean, so many people died in a matter of a few hours, and it could have been prevented so many ways. What I don't understand is how they didn't predict it. I mean, I know there are no detectors or whatever, but surely they knew about the 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia right away and could have figured out that it would cause a tsunami across the Indian ocean. I guess not though...

It really does make me glad that the US is helping out in such a large way. There are so many examples of private donations like this one (my church raised $20,000 dollars this past Sunday even though the people at my church are usually very stingy, even though they are also very rich for the most part). It's also good to see two former presidents getting involved in the aid effort and that ships from the US Navy have been dispatched to the afflicted areas to deliver aid.

I can't even imagine the devastation over there.. Didn't they say that over 145,000 people are dead and they're still finding more bodies everyday?

Wow.. That is really a scary thought..

*brushes away tear* i'm 11...and now suddenly inspired!

My two neighbors (10 and 12) are now doing the same thing. They sold $290 worth of hot chocolate at the YMCA center the other day, and they're going to be selling Lemonade tomorrow (the forecast says it'll be 70 F) by the bike trail. Right now, their goal is $1000.

And since we live in a place where a lot of news anchors live and most politicians as well, I told them to set up outside one of those people's house so that they could get some publicity. Fortunately, the bike trail runs right behind Cokie Roberts' house... hehehe

That's amazing. Really amazing.

Has anyone seen that Discovery Channel show on the mega-tsunami that could hit the East Coast (America)?

Basically an underground earthquake can only generate something like a thirty, maybe forty foot wave, but any amount of mass falling into water at a great spead can create a much larger wave. There was an instance in Alaska where a landslide created something like a fifty or a hundred foot wave that lifted these fishing boats out of the cove they were in and deposited two of them in trees, and one of them into the ocean, past a large strip of land.

My facts are really horrid, so I'm trying to get this straight, bear with me...

There's an island off the coast of Africa that has two volcanoes on it, one active and one dormant (or dead). The dead one is actually filling up with water, because the particular grade of rock on the island basically acts like one big sponge, and has been soaking up rainfall for the last few hundred or thousand years. The water on its own can't really do much but the occasional small land or mudslide, but when combined with the heat of the active volcano... well, lets just say that half of the island is going to fall into the ocean, and when it does it's going to create a wave that'll hit the east coast of America, Mexico, and Canada. It's supposed to be so tall it'll drown out sky scrapers. And they're saying it could happen anywhere from tomorrow to some hundred years from now... but soon.

We'd basically have an eight hour warning. Personally, if I was on the East Coast, I'd just take a bike, not even bother with a car. Cause a car would get stuck in traffic, and a bike... Well, think about it. On a bike you go faster then on foot, and with eight hours of pedaling you should get far enough that you'd be pretty safe. They're saying the wave would go inland a few miles.

My facts are horrid, I know. The show is playing overtime now because of the tsunami that just struck, so you'll probably be able to catch it, or check show listings on the internet... something. It's really amazing.

Wow, that is really cool. It's like this story I heard ages ago about this little girl who had a lemonade stand for cancer research (I think she had cancer herself) and raised $1,000 or something ... I heard about this awhile ago.