Vancouver woman torpedoed on wave, trapped underwater, tossed in washing machine of debris and black water.
It's been 10 years since her life-and-death struggle, but tsunami survivor Christine Lang says it's still as fresh in her memory as the day it happened.
On Boxing Day, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude mega thrust earthquake off the Indonesian coast sent a wall of water racing toward Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
Lang was on the island of Ko Phi Phi, just south of Phuket, Thailand, shopping on Main Street with Rubina Wong, her brother's girlfriend, when suddenly everything changed.
"A Thai woman holding a bucket of water started screaming," she said. People started running inland. From where we were, we could not see the ocean. We could not see the beach so we had absolutely no idea what was going on. Nobody was saying run this way, come here, or it’s a tsunami."
Vancouver woman torpedoed on wave, trapped underwater, tossed in washing machine of debris and black water.It's been 10 years since her life-and-death struggle, but tsunami survivor Christine Lang says it's still as fresh in her memory as the day it happened.On Boxing Day, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude mega thrust earthquake off the Indonesian coast sent a wall of water racing toward Thailand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.Lang was on the island of Ko Phi Phi, just south of Phuket, Thailand, shopping on Main Street with Rubina Wong, her brother's girlfriend, when suddenly everything changed."A Thai woman holding a bucket of water started screaming," she said. People started running inland. From where we were, we could not see the ocean. We could not see the beach so we had absolutely no idea what was going on. Nobody was saying run this way, come here, or it’s a tsunami."
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