Imagine sunning yourself on a pristine oriental beach. Now imagine a wall of water 30 feet high barreling down on you at 500 miles per hour, on that same beach. Heaven turns to hell, the world turns upside down, and if you survive (a big if) the 21st century has become the 12th.

Or, perhaps at least, the 19th. Because some ham radio operators happened to be near the center of devastation, on India’s Andaman Islands. They quickly set up communications on the HF band, which can reach thousands of miles. ARRL.Org has the story.

Right now the Southern California Wireless Users' Group is organizing a "South Asia Re-connect" , hoping to bring the region back to the present as rapidly as possible.

To give your own aid contact Mike Outmesguine . My thanks and prayers go with you.