The line between life and death in Puket was often just one story. People on the second story of Puket hotels took pictures of people trapped in the wave being swept away. We were in Chiang Mai on Boxing Day and watched horrified as the pictures came in over Thai TV.
It’s amazing, given the epicenter, that Thailand suffered even as much as it did.
http://www.abc.net.au/cm/lb/5979674/data/tsunami-toll-graphic-data.jpg
Boxing day tsunami 2004 Thailand - complete series 1/4 Phuket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvo_6BbKKGw