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Like kaitlin is freaked out, she s clutching. michaela is kind of stunned but not upset. vivian and i are looking at each other like holy [ bleep ], what was that? what is going on? we re trying to make sense of it. the colossal wave had struck with unimaginable force leaving death and debris in its wake, but not all was lost. many people, whether by luck or quick thinking, had survived the tsunami s wrath once. but now there was a second wave heading straight toward them. we heard the rumble of another wave coming. and hearing that sound and looking out and knowing that, you know, another one could possibly come and then hearing people scream another one, another one, i immediately sort of like kicked back into fight or flight. ....
kaitlin jumped off the back deck of this villa and started running up into the jungle and jamie didn t. he was sitting there with michaela and kaitlin was running, and i said to jamie, i m going to take off after kaitlin, catch up with us. we started to get dragged back on to the island and you could feel the metal and the wood just crushing you like you re in a massive trash compactor. the wooden boats were just being splintered to pieces up against the dock. i mean, they were hitting the dock and just splintering up in the air. and it was like this is it. there s no way out of this one because, i mean, i couldn t swim and i couldn t feel my left arm and i knew my wife was possibly paralyzed the way she was screaming. i just said, god, you need to help me out. i was under the blackwater for a long time, and i tried to fight to try to catch air. ....
Seemed to be sort of a white line. and at that point things happened really quickly. this woman looked at my dad, pointed at my little sister, michaela and said take your kids and run. and from that point on, we knew that this was no longer, you know, an average day. i just remember hearing people screaming. and it sounded like they were running towards us. and i initially thought, oh, wow, these people are really happy because that s where the boats were landing. but within three seconds i knew it wasn t that. because you could hear the screams. it was completely different than joy. i suddenly clicked into survival mode p mode. i was thinking 9/11. i grand grabbed amanda and ....
Threw her to the wall and mandy was looking right into my eyes. i started running back towards the buildings and back more inland. go, go, go. i remember turning and running and noticing other foreigners walking towards the beach. taking pictures. i noticed that kaitlin was running really fast. jamie s holding michaela s hand and she has these little high-heeled little flip-flops she s running in. then michaela dropped her journal, and when i turned around to pick it up, that s when i saw a wall of muddy, brown white water. it was at least two stories high. ....