I have always been amused at people who hear early reports from areas that have hit by some form of disaster and then take those reports as gospell. What happened to "developing" news? Maybe there were no 30 meter waves. I have trouble with believing that myself but these are still early days and the true extent of the disaster has yet to be shown.

On the plus side heard earlier this evening that rescuers had pulled an 80 year old woman and a 16 year old boy out of the rubble 9 days after the quake! MG, that would be a rescue by the uniformed people you claim are wandering aimlessly and not helping with the disaster.