Today, I was woken up by the massive earthquake in Samoa. I went downstairs to discover that all the hotel staff had fled and abandoned the hotel guests. I was left to run up to higher ground on foot. It was a three hour hike. By the time I got to a safe spot, the tsunami warning was lifted. FML
I agree, your life sucks (22444) - you totally deserved it (1933)
On 10/02/2009 at 6:41am - misc - by greeenbean (woman) - Samoa
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Fake. Where the hell are you getting internet in Samoa??? L2Post failtard
#16 - On 10/02/2009 at 10:45am by trollskitroll
(0)Water you waiting for? Everyone knows it's important to make a splash when you first meet people. That way they'll soak up to the idea of your company. Do that, and they'll never leave the hotel without wetting your whistle.
(0)It's terrible because it's actually true and happening.
#80 - On 10/02/2009 at 6:51pm by Duckasaurus
(+1)you people just fucking stupid!
The FML system finds automatically where the post has been posted from! you can find internet everywhere, asia, europe, russia, africa, fucking iraq has internet you dumbfucks! so why wouldnt Samoa?!
#102 - On 10/03/2009 at 7:19pm by Untoxicated
(0)Because communications are down after the earthquake and tsunami?
#110 - On 10/04/2009 at 8:00am by WhatTheTruck
(0)maybe they got up when op posted this? stop being so fucking narrow minded people!
#113 - On 10/04/2009 at 9:41am by Untoxicated
(+1)This is no FML....you survived. Much worse could've happened to you....Hundreds died, many lost their homes, families and friends during the earthquake. All you did was hike up a hill. Millions of children have to walk miles to fetch water for their families in bare feet a few times a day. Stop complaining.
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but with all that fat they'll float better than the skinny people. I don't think nearly as many of them will die as one would hope.
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Lol, Fat people floating.. everywhere!
(+2)Actually fat people do float better (not meant offensively as I am also big). It's the piece of bread floating while a bread crumb would sink idea at work here. Also, just because someone is big doesn't mean they should die. Skinny =/= nice. Weight says nothing about the personality or intelligence of a human being.
Please, DO NOT turn this into the anti-fat-people arguement. I am tired of trying to teach some middle-schoolers, who don't eve belong on here anyway, that physical appearance means much leaa than they think (no offense to any middle-schoolers who are not doing this). For any adults leaving comments like 'the fat people ahould die' or 'YDI for being fat/ugly/hideous...or go exercise' REALLY need to GROW UP. Fat people are discriminated against every day, and it is the only form of discrimination allowed. Do not tell me this is untrue unless you have spent years as a bigger person and have had no negative comments about it.
STOP BEING JERKS!
#25 - On 10/02/2009 at 11:10am by shadow_woman
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are you the type that says "real women have curves" and "skinny women are all bitches" and "being 300 pounds overweight is sexy, and very healthy!"
#37 - On 10/02/2009 at 12:10pm by expen_dable
(+1)fat isn't very dense (especially compared to muscle), which is why "fat people" float more easily than "skinny people". I don't think surface area:volume ratio has as much to do with it as the actual density of fat vs. other body components
#65 - On 10/02/2009 at 4:12pm by spartan_girl
(0)Typically, I don't care how someone looks if they are comfortable with themselves
But typically, people do nothing but BITCH and WHINE about their weight, whether they're fat or not, and that pisses me off to no end. Shut the FUCK up and EXERCISE if you are having such a problem (or, JUST EAT, on the opposite end).
Also, I hate when people are too fat and too skinny. There are definite indicators when you are just completely unhealthy (everyone's unhealthy in some fashion, but I'm talking about just ungodly so), and you should do something about. Don't say "you just hate me because I'm fat/skinny!" you are UNHEALTHY. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I will have zero tolerance and sympathy for you then.... It's not being a jerk then at all, not being discriminatory either.
In fact, how the hell is it in the first place? You're too big or too small for a REASON, which is usually a BAD one, unlike anyone else who can be discriminated against who are who they are for no reason they can do anything about (race, gender, orientation, disability, etc). Unless you have an eating disorder, and I mean you literally do and are just being stupid, then there is nothing to discriminate against except your unhealthiness. And no, some disorder that causes you to gain/lose weight faster or the like is no excuse, because those can be overcome. Not always easily, but it just takes a little effort either way... I lose weight easy as hell, in fact I've accidently lost 15 lbs between March and last month. Am I going to go on a whine-fest about it, or make lengthy posts about how "you're just discriminating against skinny people!" ? No. I'm going to find a way to get myself back into an good eating groove.
But again, in my personal opinion, as long as you're happy with yourself and you aren't morbidly obese/a skeleton, then I've no beef with you.
And that's my two cents.
#79 - On 10/02/2009 at 6:44pm by DameGreyWulf
(0)fat people float better because fatty tissues are less dense than muscles, rtard.
#92 - On 10/03/2009 at 2:07am by Rldiamond90
(+1)consider yourself lucky you weren't harmed. This is not a fml, you should cherish it even more now...
(+2)exactly!
...why is this an FML? oh no, you had to hike to SAVE YOUR LIFE. god, get over it. you're living, and now you got yourself a workout. my gosh, be grateful you didn't die.
#97 - On 10/03/2009 at 9:31am by simoneie123
(0)Wow, I just learned about this last night in my geology class. They shouldn't have warned the people (or only warned the people directly in the earthquake zone), since the earthquake was too far down in the ocean/plate to cause enough vibrations to create a tsunami, and the more inaccurate warnings they give, the more likely people are likely to ignore a real one.
But I agree with #6, be happy that there wasn't a tsunami and that you're still alive and well. The other earthquake nearby (that was just before this one) ended up causing a tsunami because it was really shallow for such a high magnitude.
#10 - On 10/02/2009 at 10:24am by XOfiestypixie
(+2)it was a tsunami you dumbfuck lol
almost 200 people died
#63 - On 10/02/2009 at 3:54pm by pyroanarchist23
(+1)"the tsunami warning was lifted" therefore there was no tsunami where the OP was. Don't call me a dumbfuck if you can't read the FML properly.
There was a tsunami at the location of another earthquake that occurred very soon before that one.
#73 - On 10/02/2009 at 5:05pm by XOfiestypixie
(0)dumb cunts. there were two eartquakes. one in Sumatra and one near somoa and american somoa. the person was probably on the northern part of somoa, which is why the warning was lifted. the southern part was struck about an hour and a half after the first warning was sent.
#74 - On 10/02/2009 at 5:37pm by trulyinsane
(+2)so youre still alive, depite the fact that you didn't get to a genuine safespot in time?
yes this is totally fml =| consider yourself lucky that you are still alive after a massive earthquake rather than complaining about hiking 3 miles to find your safe anyway
(0)i agree. Be grateful you are alive, not whinge about having to hike to a safe zone and then no tsunami.
#86 - On 10/02/2009 at 9:36pm by rawrsaur19
(0)Aww. How scary that must have felt.
Glad you're not being a GloomCookie about it.. already back online and doing fine, so - yay you! =]
(+1)you should be happy u did the right thing most ppl would flee to a buildin thinking that's safe but they'd get owned.
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Should've robbed the hotel, you sick fucking moron.
(-1)Either this is fake or your are stupid. Tsunamis can hit pretty late, but this one came quite fast to Samoa, the safe spot is surely not three hours away from wherever you are. And if it's not fake, you are stupid to complain because you are alive and still have all your stuff because the hotel was apparently not flooded.. Lots of people lost their home and everything they had. And many people died.
(0)uhm, actually, they shouldn't. The first thing you learn when you work in a hotel is: SAFE YOURSELF FIRST. They wouldn't want you risking your own life to safe the guests, that's not your job.
(0)Oh no! FYL because you survived an earthquake. It could have been a lot worse. Yes the hotel staff abandoned you (although maybe they put out an alarm and you missed it, I don't know), but things could have been a lot worse.
So sorry, this is really not an FML in my opinion.
(+1)It is! I came here because I heard it was a great place for surfing. Now I want my fucking tsunami!
(+2)but things like "my cat pooped on me FML" and "I got a parking ticket when I was trying to park for free FML" are?
#43 - On 10/02/2009 at 1:05pm by expen_dable
(0)I don't think YLS nor YDI is appropiate here... I mean, you should be really glad there wasn't a tsunami. But now you're whining about hiking for 3 hours. Man. You should be thankfull having all your stuff and family.
(0)You selfish bitch. You think the hotel staff owe you their lives because you stayed in a fucking hotel? Get a grip. How terrible for you that you had to spend three hours on the pointless activity of trying to save your own useless life. JFC. Earthquakes, tsunamis, death, destruction, and somehow, it's all about the shitty day YOU had? Fuck off.
(0)That's why he's pissed. This isn't entertainment, this is reality. People getting hurt, trying to run from danger, dying, and all this loser could think about was making a post that would "surely" get on to FML.
#52 - On 10/02/2009 at 2:17pm by dancingdoggy
(0)This is so fake. Who would survive something like that and then think "Gee, I bet this would make it onto the FML site... I should go post it right now!" Again I say, this is a fake. Not a good fake either.
#32 - On 10/02/2009 at 11:36am by I_Smell_A_Fake
(+1)Sure puts "Today, I sent my long-distance girlfriend the first photo of me I'd sent her in a while. It was a photo of me with some of my friends, she didn't know which one I was. FML" into perspective, doesn't it?
#39 - On 10/02/2009 at 12:25pm by Kristoffer
(0)You should be happy to be alive, there is aleast 1100 who can not say the same today.
#40 - On 10/02/2009 at 12:36pm by Littledigz27
(0)gosh that just really sucks... but AT LEAST YOU ARE ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#42 - On 10/02/2009 at 12:48pm by NotYetJaded
(0)Fuck your life? Be grateful you still have a life to fuck!
#45 - On 10/02/2009 at 1:10pm by mastershinigami
(0)Ya. Because after a massive earthquake, a tsunami, and a 3 our hike up a mountain, the first thing a person does is log onto the laptop they happened to schlep along with them and submit something to FML. Oh. And that's how they found out the tsunami warning was lifted. They logged on to tsunamiwarnings.com and zeroed in on their location using the GPS in their iPhone. Got it. Now that that's all cleared up...
(0)you deserve it for fleeing instead of looting the whole fucking island
#47 - On 10/02/2009 at 1:43pm by anonymous69
(0)Fuck you. I have actually lived through the Tsunami in south-east Asia when I was younger. FML is supposed to be a funny website, and you turned the fact that people are being harmed and having to flee from danger into a joke. You should be feeling really guilty about that, but you probably don't. You just used this horrible natural disaster as an oppurtunity to get on FML.
Go burn in hell.
#50 - On 10/02/2009 at 2:15pm by dancingdoggy
(0)How the hell is the OP turning it into a joke? Ok, so you lived through the tsunami in 2004. That's great, you're lucky. But you don't have to spaz about someone posting something like this, because they're only writing this BECAUSE there was no tsunami, but thought there was and spent 3 hours trying to get to safe ground. If there had been one, I doubt they'd be on here.
#55 - On 10/02/2009 at 3:18pm by XOfiestypixie
(0)shut up and stop whining. you are just looking for attention, there is nothing wrong with you, so stop acting like an angst-ridden little brat. how is it a joke now?
#61 - On 10/02/2009 at 3:42pm by expen_dable
(0)There's nothing wrong with him being happy he survived, but to post it on FML just means he was looking for attention, and figured this story was totally FML worthy.
Either this is fake, or this guy is one of the most insenstive survivors on the planet.
#81 - On 10/02/2009 at 6:58pm by dancingdoggy
(+1)I heard about that. 8.0 earthquake. Glad you are ok.
#51 - On 10/02/2009 at 2:16pm by ObadiahtheSlim
(+1)I think that one was a 7.6. There was one very close by that was an 8.0, and that one DID create a tsunami because it wasn't as deep in the crust as this one was. (This one was about 80 km down vs the other one being only 14km)
#56 - On 10/02/2009 at 3:20pm by XOfiestypixie
(0)So why are you complaining if you're safe..? And why the hell are you on FML instead of trying to help others that may need your hand?
#53 - On 10/02/2009 at 2:55pm by censorshipoff
(0)fake. and if not, go fucking kill yourself. dont complain that you survived.
edit: actually go kill yourself anyway.
(-1)This just proves how lazy teenagers are these days. By 2012 the world will be filled with fat couch potatos. I'm a teenager myself and I have to admit I'm quite lazy, this puts me to shame
#57 - On 10/02/2009 at 3:22pm by amelianna1899
(+1)ok questions. how the fuck does that prove how lazy teenages are?
how do you know the OP is a teenager?
(0)if this is real i hardly see how this is an FML, you're alive while a bunch of other people are dead.
(0)This is the most tasteless fake FML i've ever seen.
You're probably just someone with no life and want your 15 minutes of fame from FML, which is pretty damn sad. It's pathetic that you resort to using such a recent tragic event for such a thing. FYL.
#67 - On 10/02/2009 at 4:31pm by O_HALEZ_NAW
(0)wow, fucking be grateful that there actually wasnt a tsunami. and grow some balls. 3 miles is nothing.
#68 - On 10/02/2009 at 4:37pm by writerxforever
(0)this is fucking fake. and you're a gay for posting this bullshit.
#71 - On 10/02/2009 at 4:56pm by akkid17
(0)OMG i heard about the tsunami... wow that place must have been a wreck.
#75 - On 10/02/2009 at 5:56pm by Bredynamite
(+1)This isnt an FML! So you had to run a bit?
So many people have died, they are predicting over a thousand
Consider yourself very lucky, and go help some aid efforts instead of complaining on fml
#77 - On 10/02/2009 at 6:41pm by rebeltherace
(0)You are a liar. If you had to hike three hours to reach a safe zone out of the tsunami's path you would have been hit by it. The tsunami hit five minutes after the quake ended.
#85 - On 10/02/2009 at 9:11pm by darkfalling
(0)You sir are fucking RETARDED.The earthquake hit 160 miles off the coast of Somoa.5 minutes for a tsunami to travel 160 miles?Watch the news once in a while before you say something stupid.It took the tsunami 90 minutes to hit you fucktard
(0)so, you're upset you had to hike 3 hours to survive (which you apparently did successfully)? wow, you have it so fucking hard, don't you? i mean, so many people lost lives, children lost parents, friends lost friends, etc., but you have it so tough cos you hiked 3 hours and lived!!! if you actually are in samoa, take a good look around and look at the people mourning losses and the destruction!!!!
be thankful you're alive and stop bitching!!!!!
#88 - On 10/03/2009 at 1:09am by silly_kate
(0)Wow.
Well,
A) You survived.
B) Ever think of all those hotel employees who may have wanted to get their families to safety?
Yeah. Prespective.
(0)Dear Rich Western Snob in Samoa,
If you consider that hard work, maybe you shouldn't have been over there exploiting the locals in the first place. You know, the ones who died first because they didn't have the resources or necessesities to survive without relying on your filthy money?
#93 - On 10/03/2009 at 2:32am by ihateyourband28
(0)Some of these comments make me sick. Do you realize that there WAS a tsunami on Tuesday that took many lives? Get real with your "fat people float" BS. Open your eyes to someone else's life other than your own.
On the other hand - I don't think this is a FML. You're lucky to be someone who survived through everything. Big deal, a 3 mile hike? Good exercise & you're alive.
#94 - On 10/03/2009 at 6:38am by yankeesbabe
(0)I guess it's hard to tell unless you've been there. At least you're alive, that's a good thing
#96 - On 10/03/2009 at 6:46am by mooncalf08
(0)http://news.aol.com/article/taitasi-fitiao-watched-daughter-get/701552?icid=main|aim|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Ftaitasi-fitiao-watched-daughter-get%2F701552
this is fml worthy. get over yourself.
#98 - On 10/03/2009 at 2:43pm by fuckingshitt343
(0)uhh yeah this sounds fake.. i mean i doubt that people there can access internet, let alone computers.
#100 - On 10/03/2009 at 4:34pm by whatever2304
(+1)Think of it this way : Who wants to wake up and find out they have a huge chance of dying from a tsunami while they're on vacation and alone?
#101 - On 10/03/2009 at 6:15pm by CoffeeCovered
(0)Better safe than hopeless and drowning. Shut up.
#104 - On 10/04/2009 at 1:07am by X_totallysucks_X
(0)SO FAKE !! and even if this was rea1: 1) you're alive!!!!!!!!! and 2) i bet you facebook status says: "OMG the hotel staff abandoned me in the middle of an earthquake..." what is with people today?
#106 - On 10/04/2009 at 1:21am by phoenix03
(0)My Dad's best friend of 50 years since before college died in that tsunami. He and his wife had been sailing the world in their retirement. They had been anchored close to shore and he was swept off the boat. His name was Dan Olszewski. Be thankful that you have your life.
#108 - On 10/04/2009 at 1:54am by hoboking550
(0)I'm assuming you're a tourist in Samoa. If you were a local you wouldn't be complaining about climbing a hill for three hours. At least you're alive.
(0)Easily fake. It was about half an hour between earthquake and tsunami. And the surge was 1.5 metres high - it can't have been a 3 hour hike to get to 2 metres or more above ground. Plus, I was in neighbouring Fiji at the time and the warning was only in place for little over 90 minutes for the region.
What's more, this has been a huge tragedy, with people I've known personally having lost their lives. Don't go making up stories surrounding such a terrible disaster.
#111 - On 10/04/2009 at 8:04am by WhatTheTruck
(0)How is this an FML? You reached safety, and you say FML??? You make no sense. Be happy that you weren't seriously injured, or even died.
#112 - On 10/04/2009 at 9:23am by Matt_Nicholas
(0)I actually cannot believe I am reading this, you're actually complaining that you had to hike a hill? Do you realise how many people JUST LIKE YOU died ? You are a dud human, and I have one word for you: karma.
(0)this might be "entertaining" in like a month, but with 1100 dead and the toll tipped to hit 3000, thousands more still missing and entire villages literally washed away, excuse me if I don't cry my eyes out for your devastating plight.
besides, you don't seem too broken up about it, posting on a site like "fml" (no offence fml) the same day.
give me a break
#117 - On 10/05/2009 at 12:07am by onemilliontacos
(0)hey i'm fine, compared to some of the other posts here my answer is pretty chilled out
#122 - On 10/05/2009 at 9:05am by onemilliontacos
(0)be happy there was no tsunami.. 0_O
today i woke up and drowned immediately cuz i was in the middle of a tsunami. fml
(0)#123
WHAT THE HECK?!? Its called 'tourisim' and it is a vital part of stimulating not only the economy of poorer countrys such as Samoa but the world economy. How is travelling on holiday to Samoa betraying your people?
