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Panic before the storm (a terribly sad series of three pictures taken as the tsunami approaches)
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | 12/30/04

Posted on 12/30/2004 7:06:00 AM PST by dead

Tourists run for their lives as the first of six tsunamis starts to roll towards Hat Rai
Lay Beach, near Krabi in southern Thailand. One woman runs towards the waves.
Photo: AFP




The woman continues to run as the wave advances.
Photo: AFP




With the waves engulfing boats, the woman makes contact with her group. It is not known if they survived.
Photo: AFP


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To: dead

Those that play in the ocean should be familiar with their surroundings and understand the ocean. When the entire coast line is breaking all at once far out it is time to get the hell off the beach. I started surfing at age 30 and found out the hard way how to judge the surf and waves until I learned from experienced locals. It was clear from these photos that at least some people knew what was coming and others did not. At sea level the waves are breaking near @20 feet or higher with a 10ft. plus or higher tide behind it pushing in and breaking along the entire beach as the tide first was low and way out before the waves began to break hard with the rushing tide. From the distance the wave moved as the woman ran it was moving very fast @75mph or better.


401 posted on 01/04/2005 1:09:33 PM PST by Mat_Helm
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To: Mat_Helm

According to the paper she survived along with her family. The waves broke enough that the tide must have been low enough for them to manage escaping to higher ground.


402 posted on 01/04/2005 1:18:06 PM PST by Mat_Helm
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To: MikeinIraq

Are you home yet??????/


403 posted on 01/05/2005 4:04:46 PM PST by marmar (Even though I may look different then you...my blood runs red, white and blue.....)
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To: marmar

nah I am in Qatar right now....

waiting on my flight home at the moment....


404 posted on 01/05/2005 4:05:33 PM PST by MikefromOhio (Out of Baghdad!!!! But still boycotting boycotts)
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To: MikeinIraq
Well, I am going to be the first one to Welcome You Home. I was in Quatar in Apr 03, leaving Oman. It is not as nice as Seeb was. May God protect you on your journey and keep ya'll safe.
405 posted on 01/05/2005 4:11:44 PM PST by marmar (Even though I may look different then you...my blood runs red, white and blue.....)
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To: marmar

thank you...

He has seen me (and my wife) through the hardest parts....


406 posted on 01/05/2005 4:16:44 PM PST by MikefromOhio (Out of Baghdad!!!! But still boycotting boycotts)
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To: MikeinIraq

Your welcome and thank you for your civi service. It takes great courage to do what you did.


407 posted on 01/05/2005 4:19:33 PM PST by marmar (Even though I may look different then you...my blood runs red, white and blue.....)
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To: Lazamataz

Tsunamis are not normal, steep fronted waves. They are more like a tidal bore. Except instead of the foam line being a couple feet tall, it is, typically, 6 - 150 feet tall. This tsunami was actually much smaller than what was experienced in the North Pacific in '64. One place in Alaska it was *200 feet* tall. Hitting Crescent City, CA, it was still at 20 feet.


408 posted on 01/05/2005 5:36:01 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: Brilliant

Actually, it was devestated. Most of the development on that island is on a low sandspit between two highlands. It was nearly picked clean.


409 posted on 01/05/2005 5:37:42 PM PST by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: MikeinIraq
the Tsunami was only about 6-10 feet high....

at that location......much higher in other places.

LVM

410 posted on 01/05/2005 6:28:08 PM PST by LasVegasMac (I'm John Kerry and I am reporting for ...unemployment.)
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To: Lazamataz
It was posted earlier....am looking for the link.

The wave height was different at various locations.

Places were just wiped clean - photo's from sat - just incredible.

IMHO, most of the video / pics you see on the web do not do justice to what actually happened - they look lame. But that is only one location.

411 posted on 01/05/2005 6:33:29 PM PST by LasVegasMac (I'm John Kerry and I am reporting for ...unemployment.)
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To: LasVegasMac

I actually screwed that post up and put feet instead of what I intended, which was meters....


412 posted on 01/05/2005 6:35:30 PM PST by MikefromOhio (Out of Baghdad!!!! But still boycotting boycotts)
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To: MikeinIraq
I actually screwed that post up and put feet instead of what I intended, which was meters....

Hey, no problem. There was an earlier post - with sat pics of the northern end of Aceh, I think, - before and after. wiped clean - except for the masque.

Just seems to me that a lot of folks are looking for the pic / video of the "huge wave" - like on the recent movies - coming in.

I'm thinking that the places that saw the big one - did not have the tourists on the beach with the video camera - but are now gone. AKA - the sat pictures. Just heart wrenching.

LVM

413 posted on 01/05/2005 7:07:14 PM PST by LasVegasMac (I'm John Kerry and I am reporting for ...unemployment.)
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To: Mat_Helm
You are right: THE ENTIRE FAMILY SURVIVED! See Mother in photos survived tsunami.

I hope that good news will bring a big relief to all the good people who cared all along this thread.

Paris, Wed 12 Jan 2005  14:49:20 +0100

414 posted on 01/12/2005 5:49:23 AM PST by Michel Merlin
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To: Michel Merlin
I just found why there are no more posts here: Free Republic continued that news in another one, in Three Tsunami Photos - They Lived!!

Other news in Google "Karin Svaerd", Swedish family survives wall of water (photo with names), photo of the reunited family.

Paris, Wed 12 Jan 2005  15:37:20 +0100

415 posted on 01/12/2005 6:37:23 AM PST by Michel Merlin
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