Tsunami... by the numbers.

The global death toll for the South Asian tsunami is upwards of 226,000. It will be climbing due to famine and disease.

That's the like driving on Sunrise Highway from Valley Stream to Bellmore and not seeing a living person until Wantagh. All of VS gone, all of Lynbrook, all of RVC, Baldwin, Freeport, Merrick and Bellmore... gone.

The number of homeless people is 1.5 million.

That's the entire population of Suffolk County. Everyone from Amityville to Montauk, from Rocky Point to Patchogue... homeless.

That number is unbelievable...so sad...all the devastation

You really can't fathom the numbers until you start putting them into perspectives that we can understand.

Crazy.

Wow.... how terrible

its so sad and devasting to hear the loss of all of those people! my heart goes out to the family of the people they lost in the Tsunami!