Tsunami Alert at Amritapuri
29 March 2005, 12.30 a.m. — Amritapuri
At 10:30 p.m. on 28 March, the Ashram received
the news that there had been another earthquake
off the coast of Indonesia, registering 8.2 on
the Richter scale.
Amma immediately called the Ashram to alert
and sent word to the villagers to evacuate the
Alappad Panchayat peninsula, to which the Ashram
is home.
Amma sent Ashram trucks and buses out into the
village to shuttle the villagers to various jetties
along the backwaters.
Photo:- Amma helps villagers and students into
boats so they can cross the backwaters to safety |
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Four buses, three trucks, six cars and one ambulance
were used for transportation in the evacuation operation.
Amma then went to Ashram boat jetty and began personally
seeing that all the villagers, students, devotees
and ashramites were getting across the backwaters safely
to the Amrita University campus.
Photo:- Amma helps villagers and students into
boats so they can cross the backwaters to safety
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Ram and Lakshmi, the Ashram elephants, have
been shifted to the safety of the temple.
Food preparations for evacuees immediately got
underway.
The Ashram has also evacuated the villages it
adopted in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu after the
last tsunami.
As of this posting at 12:35 a.m., Amma is still
at the jetty seeing people across to safety. |
Update 2.30 a.m All villagers, devotees
and students of the university are evacuated from the
village. Amma, swamis and few ashramites are staying
backat the ashram. Fear of tsunami attack is over.
All will be back in the morning.
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