Tsunami warning in effect - NOW

**jaymzw** · 1st October 2009, 08:02

Originally Posted by wbks

What this guy said

Filipinos are good people! In my experience, always friendly and work twice as hard as any NZer worker when they come over here for a career

Like the other guy said, it has to be connections.

Yeah this must be right. Obviously New Zealand has an interest in the sustained improvement of the Samoan Economy so it would affect us more. Plus we were technically effected by the same Tsunami. Hence more news coverage.

I just found it interesting about the amount of news coverage the item in the Philippines got here. Just thought id bring it up because my Girlfriends best friends mother was killed in that flooding and she didnt know it had even happened until i saw it on the internet

**kevfromcoro** · 1st October 2009, 08:07

got a txt from my daughter in oz..
was worried.. thought NZ was under water.
must of been on the news over there
something has happened in Indonesia now
anyone got an update?

**R6_kid:Me** · 1st October 2009, 11:36

My friend was staying on the beach at Lalomanu where the tsunami hit hardest. Apparently she'd had a dream about an earthquake the night before and had already thought of where they would go.

When the earthquake hit they got in the car and drove 15km in 6minutes to get to higher ground. Apparently they could hear the wave crashing through and all the people screaming. From what I understand they were the only ones to get out of the resort in time. They were evacuated to Auckland and got home to Wellington at 7am this morning. Needless to say she's a bit distraught and not too happy after what she saw and experienced.