The city of Chennai (Madras) in India was hit pretty badly by the tsunamis. I don't know the death toll exactly, but I do know it was in the thousands.
"Yeah, so?" you may wonder.
The reason I'm singling out this particular city is because I was there four years ago, during the Semester At Sea program I've mentioned on various occasions. I took lots of photos of Chennai, I met quite a few people there, and I can actually put faces to the numbers.
To me, this It's one thing when tragedy happens to anonymous statistics. But when you can put faces to the numbers, hearing about something like this puts a different perspective on it.
Some of you can probably relate to this in some way.
