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hilarious but tragically true

Excerpt from Colombo Times
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On 26th Dec '04 early morning, several hours before the
catastrophe happened, Honolulu Tsunami Monitoring Center have been
trying to call the Meteorological Dept. Monitoring Center in Palekelle
and Colombo but failed. They also got in touch with Presidents'
Office however they were informed that she's out of the island on
a private vacation. Finally they called Prime Minister's
Secretariat, but Prime minister was out on his morning walk.
Thinking at least it is best to keep him vigilant on this, the
Honolulu Officials left the message with the person, who picked
up the phone, to inform Prime Minister that there's Tsunami coming
from Indonesia. On Prime Minister's return, the operator told
Prime Minister about the call, and said T. Sunami from Indonesia is
arriving in 2 hours time. Prime Minister promptly took action to
send a delegation to Katunayake Airport with name boards

' Welcome Mr.T. Sunami – Indonesia'.