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| A Thai takes part in a candlelight vigil on New Year’s Eve for the victims of the tsunami disaster in Patong Beach, Thailand. Thailand’s death toll in the tsunami disaster had doubled to more than 4,500, almost half of them foreigners. (Photo by Richard Vogel/AP) |
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Carlsson described his own experience of the tsunami.
“It was a clear blue sky and we were having our morning coffee at Connect when
we heard people screaming that the beach had disappeared,” he said. “When I
got close to the beach I heard more screaming and suddenly I saw this huge wave,
taller than the palm trees, coming to crash down on us. ...
“We rushed into a hotel as the huge wave rolled into Patong Beach,” he said.
“The giant wave flooded the lobby within seconds and dragged furniture onto
the street. I had to wrap myself around a pillar to avoid being swept away.
As I was standing there, a car actually floated into the lobby and overturned
because the current was so strong. The water was up to my chest, and I was holding
on to my boyfriend’s hand because he can’t swim.”
“It’s a strange feeling to walk from one side of Rath-U-Thit road to the other,”
Carlsson said. “On one side it looks like a war zone and on the other side nothing
had changed.”
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