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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Has anyone heard about how American troops on Diego Garcia made it through the tsunami? Diego Garcia is a major military base on an atoll in the Indian Ocean with an average elevation of four feet above sea level and a maximum elevation of only twenty-two feet. It sounds like a big wave could put the whole place under water. I read a story that said that a scientific station in Hawaii was able to warn Diego Garcia before the wave hit, but on an island like that, what can you do?
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Good point. It would seem hard to be defensive there. The 8 dead
headline helps here.
