Photo via Daily Mail

 

By Ryan Turner

 

Twenty years after surviving the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, supermodel Petra Nemcova revisited her harrowing experience in a recent Good Morning America interview with Diane Sawyer.

 

Nemcova, now 45 years old, was vacationing at Thailand’s Khao Lak resort with her boyfriend, photographer Simon Atlee, when the tsunami struck on December 26, 2004. The massive waves, triggered by an undersea earthquake, demolished their bungalow and swept them both away.

 

Despite suffering a crushed pelvis, Nemcova managed to survive by holding onto a tree as the waters raged around her. The Czech-born model reflected during the interview, which included footage from her initial 2005 conversation with Sawyer, reported Daily Mail.

 

 

“It’s always difficult to go back [to] that moment when my life changed.”

 

The catastrophic tsunami claimed over 5,000 lives in Thailand alone and resulted in nearly 230,000 deaths across South Asia, reported Daily Mail.

 

Source: The Thaiger

-- 2024-12-23

 

 

I was in my high floor apartment in Bangkok when the room started moving on that day in 2004. And I thought to myself that there are not supposed to be any earthquakes in Bangkok. But the room was certainly moving.

Then, it took about three days until the enormity of what happened was reported. I still have those newspapers somewhere.

One of the lucky ones...

It sure didn't take long to rebuild the area.  I have to wonder how many of the tourists there know what happened on that day.  Also sort of wonder how many Thais remember or have been told about it.