Expert: I tried to warn of tsunami

CNN News

01/03/05

'I tried to call the director-general of the meteorological office, but his phone was always busy,' Samith said as he described his desperate attempts to generate an alert which might have saved thousands of lives. 'I tried to phone the office, but it was a Sunday and no-one was there,' said the former chief of the meteorological department now charged with setting up an early warning disaster system for Thailand. 'I knew that one day we would have this type of tsunami. I warned that there would be a big disaster,' he told reporters. 'Everyone laughed at me and said I was a bad guy who wanted to ruin the tourist industry,' he added...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/03/tsunami.warning.reut/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp