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  1. I didn't expect to cry, I don't usually, but I can't honestly count how many times I gave up holding it. This stunned me, never realised it was dreadful.

  2. before i was born, my parents and brothers went to phuket as they would annually (they continued going annually ever since ). they were meant to stay at a beach front villa, but for their miracle it wasn’t available. so they stayed at a different hotel which was around 300 metres away from shore. along their vacation they were having their wonderful time. then the waves came, the tsunami. my oldest brother asked my mum “are we going to die.” fast forward sixteen years later. as they are all here today. i am so thankful to be alive today. i feel so sorrowful for all those lives lost ??

  3. This was the last news item my mum and I ever watched. It was her final Christmas, the last one she would spend in my home for Christmas. It was the first Christmas we ever traded gifts. We sat down on Boxing Day after dinner, she was in tears, my mum never cried at news unless she was watching something that was from Ethiopia. That was her charity of choice.

    I looked at her and she said, I’ve never ever been on a plane, I was looking in those brochures you brought home from work, I looked at this part of the world, I’ve always wanted to visit here, my mum had the gift. She dreamt about it while asleep on Christmas night, even during dinner she was despondent. Then when it came on the news, she said “maybe I should’ve said something this morning, maybe I could’ve helped?” I said mum, they’re hours ahead of us, it would’ve been too late.

    My mum wasn’t intelligent but, she was a hustler, she had street smarts. Every time I watch this, what those poor people suffered it hurts twice, once for their pain and once for mine. One New Years Eve, my mum said, I won’t be in those islands ever. I asked why? She said, “I’ve 8 months 1 day left, I want you to see the world for me, I’ll be with you each time, in you, my blood travels with you and in spirit.” Assuming my mum had an illness that made her terminal and she didn’t tell us. It wasn’t my mum took her own life on the 2nd of August 2005.

    She kept her word, she guided me safely through Colombia, through Chile, through, Bolivia, through Peru, through Mexico in many states including the cartel territories. I visited Phuket and Phi Phi Islands just for her, she was with me my entire time. Even though, this story is about the survivors and those that perished, I feel a close connection to it, simply because of my last Christmas with my mum. To those that passed, I hope she is with those lost, she never took care of us, I hope she’s taking care of them.

  4. https://youtu.be/7mYWSkePa0c
    In this YouTube video MAN will REALIZED that there is REALLY GOD.. A TSUNAMI THAT KILLED 250K PEOPLE IN 14 COUNTRIES CAUSE BY A VERY STRONG EARTHQUAKE IN BANDA ACEH INDONESIA IN 2004..

    In this YouTube video WILL SHOW to US and REALIZED that THERE is REALLY GOD than WHAT OTHER THINK that THERE IS NOTHING BUT they are GOD of THEMSELVES for EVERYTHING they WANTED in LIFE is THERE but that's NOT can SAVE THEM. And we MUST BELIEVE that there is REALLY GOD who CREATED US and EVERYTHING in HERE and we must ACCEPT it that WE ARE NOT MORE THAN TO HIM WHO CREATED US.. AND WE MUST PUT INTO OUR MIND THAT WHEREVER WE GO AND WHATEVER WE DO IN LIFE, ALL WE CAN DO FOR OUR SAFETY IS TO PRAY AND PUT ALL OUR TRUST TO HIM WHO CREATED EVERYTHING IN UNIVERSE..

  5. Seeing how happy everyone was before the tragedy hit, it makes me so sad, these people couldn't have expected what happened at all. Everything that happened breaks my heart, I will forever remember this disaster and the lives that were lost

  6. If I’m on a beach and the water starts pulling back then I’m going to run as fast as I can.
    All you can do is run, get as far inland as possible and then climb to the top of the nearest building and wait it out.

    Then you wait during the aftermath for help to arrive.

  7. i feel like tsunamis, earthquakes, tornados, fires is mother natures way of telling us to wake tf up and up our responsibilities for once. shit one day we might have an apocalyptic event might happen like this

  8. This is heartbreaking
    It strikes such a resemblance to the movie the impossible and I know it’s based off of the same tsunami, they must have gathered inspiration from this documentary

  9. Dumb ppl on the beach! DUMB! Just sayin "oh cool, whats goin on there?" with the kids nearby… When i see water is goin back, i start running 4 my fckn life! 1km in 4 mins No problem!

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