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Editor’s note: This footage is from the 2009 American Samoa tsunami. For reports and videos on the 2011 Japan tsunami please go here.

The Samoan tsunami death toll reaches 150 and climbing. The below photos are raw footage of the destruction wreaked upon Samoa and American Samoa, islands in the South Pacific Ocean about 2,300 miles South of Hawaii where the tsunami hit hard. Click on any photo to enlarge it.

Photo 1 – Above top left: A damaged shop front is seen after a tsunami hit the village of Si’umu in Western Samoa September 30, 2009 in this photo taken by a resident of Western Samoa and forwarded to Reuters.

Photo 2 – Above top right: A car is seen inside a building after a tsunami struck the village of Si’umu in Western Samoa.

Photo 3 – Above left 2nd from top: A boat is stranded among wreckage in the village of Si’umu.

Photo 4 – Above right 2nd from top: Residents walk past wreckage in the village of Si’umu.

Photo 5 – Above left 3rd from top: The roof of a destroyed house sits on a road in Leone, in American Samoa, on Tuesday morning.

Photo 6 – Above right 3rd from top: Damaged vehicles in Si’umu.

Photo 7 – Above left 4th from top: A destroyed structure is seen among debris near a church in the village of Leone, American Samoa.

Photo 8 – Above right 4th from top: The roof of a destroyed house sits on a road in Leone.

Photo 9 – Above left 5th from top : A damaged vehicle is stranded among wreckage after a tsunami hit the village of Si’umu.

Photo 10 – Above right 5th from top: Wreckage at the site of a village meeting house in Leone.

Photo 11 – Above left 6th from top: The downtown area of Fagatogo, a town of 3,000 on the shore of Pago Pago Harbor in American Samoa, is submerged by seawater early on Tuesday.

Photo 12 – Above right 6th from top: A damaged truck in Leone.

Photo 13 – Above left 1st map: An earthquake event location map generated and released by the United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center shows the location of an earthquake that the center measured as having a preliminary magnitude of 8.3 occurring in the Samoa Islands Region of the Pacific Ocean on September 29, 2009. New Zealand can be seen at center and Australia at left.

Photo 14 – Above right 2nd map: An earthquake location map generated and released by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows the location of an earthquake that the USGS measured as having a magnitude of 8.0 occurring in the Samoa Islands Region of the Pacific Ocean on September 29, 2009.

Photo 15 – Above left 3rd map: A tsunami travel time map and table generated by the United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center shows projected travel times.

Photo 16 – Above right final map: General map of the area of the tsunami.

The following video is raw footage of the tsunami in the Samoan islands provided by the Associated Press:

The following Video is raw footage of the destruction in Si’umu, Samoa, and is provided by Reuters:

The Internet is full of jokes, but, unfortunately, many of them are not very funny. At McCafferty’s, we try to publish only jokes and stories that we truly find funny. Here are three of my favorite jokes. I laughed out loud when I first heard them, so the chances are very good that you will like them too.

A pedestrian is walking past an insane asylum, and in the distance hears a bunch of the asylum inmates inside screaming at the top of their lungs, “Thirteen! Thirteen! Thirteen!”

Intrigued, the pedestrian peeks through a hole in the fence to see what all the commotion is about, and, suddenly, a finger pops out jabbing him right in the eye.

He screams in pain, and the inmates all start gleefully shouting, “Fourteen! Fourteen! Fourteen!”

*****

A woman gets on a bus carrying her baby in her arms. The bus driver takes one look and says to the woman: “Lady, that is the ugliest baby that I have ever seen.”

Enraged, the woman stomps to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a passenger seated next to her: “That driver just insulted me!”

The passenger says: “You go right up there and tell him off! Go ahead, I’ll hold your monkey for you.”

*****

This joke is in honor of all of the American soldiers fighting the war on terror:

A large group of Al Qaeda terrorists are traveling down an Iraqi road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune. “One American soldier is better than ten Al Qaeda.”

The Al Qaeda commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the dune. Immediately a gun-battle breaks out, continues for a few minutes, and then only silence prevails.

The voice once again calls out this time saying “One American soldier is better than one hundred Al Qaeda.”

The Al Qaeda commander angrily sends 100 of his best killers over the dune and again a huge gun fight ensues.

After 10 minutes of battle, again one hears only silence.

The American soldier’s voice calls out this time “One American soldier is better than one thousand Al Qaeda.”

By now the Al Qaeda commander is totally enraged, so he musters 1000 fierce fighters and orders them over to the other side of the sand dune. Ak47 fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and cannon fire all ring out as a terrific battle is fought.

But, eventually, once again there is just silence.

Soon one badly wounded Al Qaeda fighter crawls back over the dune to his commander, gripping the commander’s coat with his blood drenched hand the terrorist tells his commander in his dying words…

“Don’t send any more men. It’s a trap. There are two of them.”

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