Apart from my obvious connections to India, my family lived in Sri Lanka for three years. Route 2 - from Colombo to the southern coast and then across to the east - is a road I have driven often and love; it's now devastated. Sri Lanka is one of my fav places on earth. Needless to say, the tsunami's left me shaken and in turmoil.
Some thoughts:
1) The coordination displayed here in the UK was impressive. I went Christmas shopping at Selfridges, and they has a barcode to scan which would register donations for the tsunami appeal. No wonder so much money (>$120m) was raised so fast.
2) This is a direct example of how coordination failures in poor countries are the poor suffer first (ie, the countries across the rim just failed last year to agree on a joint purchase of an early warning system).