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Today marks the 16th year since this happened on Boxing Day 2004


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8:05 am was siting in my room, checking emails when the power went out,
5 minutes later my daughter ran up and told me people were parking on my front lawn and asking me if they could get any higher

 

the hotel in Kamala 

My pics the day off and a few days after in Khao lak
https://phuket.zenfolio.com/p97696558

 

 

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I am ashamed to say that I had forgotten about that terrible day given the current situation sucking up all the oxygen. I was here in Kata that morning. More like 09.06 as I remember. Obviously the damage in Kata and Karon was much less severe than Patong, Kamala, and northern beaches.

 

Yes ... all perished Rest in Peace   

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Yes, I forgot about it due to covid and other things. Ashamed, really.

I still hear from some of the people  that I met and helped and those are the only good memories about that time that I have left.

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5 hours ago, beechbum said:

Was definitely a very sad time, the greedy thieving bastards from Bangkok reached new lows.

Not to mention the greedy bastards who bought up all the beaches in Kao Lak and created eyesores for profit.

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Felt it...ever so gently rock the bed ....Lek Hotel 2nd Road, Pattaya....thought...That feels like an earthquake

 

Didn't know anything about the Tsunami until two days later...

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This is one of those weird quirks of fate, We were going to spend Christmas in Phuket on the beach, tickets and hotel booked.

 

Then at the last minute my Dad was taken into hospital and I flew back to the US.

 

I've often wondered what would have happened had that not occurred and me, my wife and son had actually been on the beach that day.

 

Our son was 4 years old at the time. The thought that his life could have been cut short, like so many others, is almost unimaginable

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