We watched the wall of water rise o

We watched the wall of water rise over the top of the hotels and pour down onthe burning buildings. In two seconds the big wave did what the firefighters had tired to do for twenty minutes. The flames died under the hge volume of sea water. The four of us stood at the top of the hill,staring down at the unbelievable ruins as the wave slid back where it had come from, taking with it pieces of the twoyellow buildingsand the people who had been near them. Ayellow car bobbed upside down on the receding wave, its tiresspinning in the air" Tom, a survivor of the Thailand tsunami,described the picture like this. He was able to escape from the tsunami simply thanks to the warning from Tilly Smith.