Words fail: tsunami death toll update

To repeat -- and rephrase -- Edmund Burke's great observation that there are some events so momentus it is impossible to say nothing and impossible to know what to say.  The tsunami death toll is now at 280,000 and it is reported that 1,000 bodies a day are still being uncovered in the worst-hit areas:

Hundreds of bodies are still being pulled daily from the rubble in Indonesia, while many more lie unidentified in mass graves in Thailand as tsunami-hit countries struggle to even count their dead, let alone identify and bury them.

With 11 Indian Ocean countries suffering deaths and more than 50 other nations reporting citizens killed, the disaster a month ago touched an unprecedented number of communities.

In Indonesia’s worst-hit Aceh province more than 1,000 bodies a day are still being recovered.

Wow.