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To: redfish who wrote (299691)	12/27/2004 7:23:02 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Must be a huge amount of water associated with these waves. Like any sea wave the water recedes first, if it goes out so far where you cannot see the sea anymore, it's time to start running I think.. The first thing I could see was that the sea had disappeared. It had just been completely pulled out. I looked then two minutes later and saw a tidal wave coming up. The tide completely engulfed the whole beach. timesonline.co.uk 'The first thing I could see was that the sea had disappeared' Mary Picking, a tourist in Phuket: “We saw this enormous tidal wave approaching the beach and people started to run. Suddenly it was complete chaos, people running and screaming as the waves hit.” Jonathan Grant, 40, a shopfitter from Brighton who was on Kata Beach in Thailand: “Locals just grabbed what belongings they could, frantically packed them on to their mopeds and drove away from the beach but tourists just seemed to stay around, looking at the sea. The area behind the beach looks dire, with uprooted palm trees, smashed windows and a thick layer of sludge everywhere. Most of the beach huts have disappeared.” Jane Taylor-Hayhurst, a writer for The Times Magazine, staying at a hillside hotel overlooking Kata Beach in Phuket: “I woke up at about 8 o’clock in the morning and felt kind of light tremors but didn’t know what it was. About half an hour later I was asleep and was woken by stronger tremors. I just looked over the balcony. The first thing I could see was that the sea had disappeared. It had just been completely pulled out. I looked then two minutes later and saw a tidal wave coming up. The tide completely engulfed the whole beach. There were boats and bikes just being flung up. Lots of people were injured.” Sumy Menon, a tourist sailing off the coast of Krabi: “We could see the tsunami breaking on the shore behind us. The waves crashed on to the shores with devastating force.” --------------------------------------------------------------