Ten years on, and people are still living near the beach in Aceh ...

[MrWorldwide]

http://www.voanews.com/content/aceh-rebuilt-decade-after-tsunami-but-scars-remain/2561863.html

Anywhere from 160,000 to 220,000 dead and missing, survivors justifiably terrified of the ocean and this is what the aid agencies did with the billions pumped into Aceh post tsunami. I get that many of these folk still make their living from the ocean - doesnt mean they're happy about it.

Some of the replacement homes were also hastily and shoddily built, much to the chagrin of their occupants. Bahri is among those less than thrilled to again be living along the coast with his new wife and their two daughters, ages 6 and 4. “I can’t afford to live anywhere else,” he explained. “So I had to come back here, even though I’m afraid.”

Those who've rebuilt resorts in southern Thailand and elsewhere are willing to gamble that 2004 was a 'once in a century event', and that may well be true for Thailand and Sri Lanka. Sumatra isnt so fortunate:

http://www.tectonics.caltech.edu/outreach/highlights/sumatra/

Whether we'll see another tsunami like Boxing Day2004 or the Japanese tsunami of 2011 is largely academic for most of us, but I feel for people who survived this and still live with the possibility of it happening again. Incomprehensible that anyone would rebuild a town like this, but I've never worked for an aid organisation.

Edited January 8, 2015 by MrWorldwide