The Tsunami Summary

The text begins with narratives from the people of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, when it was hit by a tsunami on 26 December 2004. The first is the account of a manager of a cooperative in Katachal, one of the islands of Nicobar. His name was Ignatius. At around six in the morning his wife got an earthquake and they immediately woke him up. Ignatius placed the television set on the floor to prevent it from falling off the table. Then they immediately evacuated the house.

As the earthquake struck, the sea started to rise. Due to sheer chaos and confusion, her two children shook hands with their mother's father and mother's brother. They ran to save themselves from the wave, but unfortunately, Ignatius could never see them again. The waves swallowed his wife as well. In the end, only her and her three children who stayed with her could be saved.

Sanjeev, a policeman in Katchal, managed to save himself and his family. He had a wife and a daughter. But he saw his guesthouse wife John crying for help. Therefore, he jumped into the water to save her, but unfortunately, both were taken away from the water.

Waves also carried a thirteen-year-old teenager named Meghna and her parents along with seventy-more people. It is learned that Meghna managed to survive by holding onto a wooden door. She floated in the water for two days and during those two days, she saw relief helicopters at least eleven times but unfortunately they could not locate her. Finally he was taken to the sea shore by a wave. She was found only when she was walking sideways in complete confusion and shock.

Ten-year-old Almas Javed's father owned a petrol pump in Port Blair. There, she studied at Carmel Convent. The family came to their mother's home in Nankori Island, an island in the middle of the Nicobar Islands, to celebrate Christmas. On the day of the disaster, the whole family was asleep when it came to shocks early in the morning. It was only when Almas's father saw the sea water recede, that he anticipated that it would return with an unusually great force. He immediately woke everyone up and drove them to a safe place on the sidewalk.

As they get out of harm's way, Almas' grandfather is hit by something and falls down. In an attempt to give him a hand, Almas's father rushes towards him. As soon as the first huge wave came, it took both of them with them. On the other hand, Almas's mother and aunt summoned the leaves of a coconut tree to him. A strong wave came and took them with it as it drove the tree out of the ground.

Almas climbed a log of wood, which he saw before he fainted. When he regained consciousness, he found himself in a hospital in Kamorta, an island in Nicobar. The girl is brought to Port Blair and is shocked by the incident. She was distraught to the extent that she did not want to discuss the episode with anyone.

Hit tsunami areas of Thailand as well. The story is about the Smith family who came from southeast England to southern Thailand to celebrate Christmas at a beach resort. Penny and Colin Smith had two daughters; Tilly Smith, a ten-year-old schoolgirl and another seven years old. On December 26, 2004, he had already experienced an earthquake in the morning. Now, the tsunami was about to come. Penny Coleen remembers seeing the swelling of the water as it kept coming inside the ocean and making the sea smaller. She says that she does not understand what is happening.

On the other hand, Tilly knew that nothing was wrong. She could remember what she had studied in her geography class in England two weeks before coming to England for vacation. As he watched the sea water rising and forming whirlpools, he remembered what he had seen in his class. It was a video of a tsunami that struck the island of Hawaii in 1946. The teacher also told them the reasons for tsunamis, which could be earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides.

As soon as he realized what was happening, he started shouting at his family to get away from the beach. Her mother later said that she was referring to some earthquake under the sea and she panicked and became uncontrollable. Penny said that she did not know what the tsunami was, but seeing her daughter so nervous she could have guessed that the situation was serious.

Tilly's parents took their daughters to the hotel's swimming pool to get away from the beach. Many tourists also followed him. Then they saw great waves coming after them as if it was the whole sea that had come out. Penny shouted for everyone to get out of danger. He took refuge on the third floor. The hotel building survived three tsunami waves. He further stated that they could not survive because they were alive on the beach.

The Smith family later had a chance to meet other tourists who had lost their entire families during the tsunami. He is given all the credit for Billy and his geography lessons. Tilly later narrated the incident to his classmates in England.

It is believed that before the huge waves that entered the coast of India and Sri Lanka, wild and domestic animals knew what lay ahead. The reason for this is that they ran out of danger somewhere safe. Some eyewitnesses describe first-hand how screaming elephants run on high ground, flamingos also leave their low-breeding grounds, zoo animals flee to their shelters and no temptation is able to bring them out Was. Even dogs refused to go outside.

It is well known among people that animals are comfortable in the direction of the Earth moving. Some experts are of the opinion that they can already hear or feel the vibrations of the earth because they have a sharp ability to hear. This is why they may experience a disaster much earlier than humans. It is quite clear that we cannot say with certainty that animals are instinctive and can quickly understand the disaster, but the evidence is quite pointed. Facts say that huge waves of the Indian Ocean took 150,000 human lives but many animals were not reported dead.

On the Cuddalore coast of India, where waves killed nearly a thousand people, animals such as buffalo, goats and dogs were banished. On the other hand, at Yala National Park in Sri Lanka, sixty visitors drifted away from the water, while none of the animals were harmed except for the two water buffalo. One thing to note here is that the Yala National Park serves as home to a large number of about one hundred and thirty species of animals such as elephants, leopards and birds. In fact, the people present in Yala National Park saw three elephants running away from Patangala Beach at least an hour before the arrival of the waves.