After reading that the death toll could reach 100,000 I truly wondered how in the world that could happen... and I found these sites...

http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html

http://www.pbase.com/issels/phuket_tsunami&page=all

They are blogs, which in some cases give more first hand accounts of what actually happened - more so than the news that is reported which has a tendency to either inflate or deflate information...After downloading a video from the first site I listed from Thailand, I truly can't imagine being the person behind the camera and experiencing this...

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