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Ducati Corse
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Tsunami. One of the very lucky ones
Oh for he grace of god!
Friends of mine went on holiday for 2 weeks to Galle in Sri Lanka for Christmas. They were due to be transfered to another hotel the day the tsunami hit but the transfer was put back a few hours. The hotel they were going to no longer exists.
the one they were staying in was in an old fort and on some higher ground, though 12 people were still killed in the fort.
After the first wave, they like many others, they went out to survey the devastation. She remarked how far the sea had receded, that they were many fish just flapping about on the sand, and how calm it was. Her son said that he had just learnt at school that this was a sign of the trough between surges in a tidal wave/tsunami. Consequently they legged it back to the highest ground possible, the fort. Seems a lot of peolple got caught by the next wave when they were doing just as they had done.
My friend was close to tears telling me about the terrible scenes they saw. They were without fresh water, electricity and any form of communication for a few days until they were moved out. It was only then when they had access to news when they found out the true scale of the disaster.
They were incredibly lucky, but please spare a thought for those what weren't
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