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Just had news in that my bro's mate got hit by the Tsunami.

He was in his tent camping @ Lances left and was underwater in his tent trying to breath through his tent material, 2nd wave hit and hit got tangled in his fly and thought it was all over, miraculously the thing ripped and he got free.

 

How much would that freak you out? Can imagine.. Just glad he is OK.

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Surfers always seem to get out of these type of scrapes OK. It's the locals that always cop it. Poor buggers can't even swim, let alone deal with all that!

 

A similar thing happened to a mate of mine at G-Land in 1994. He was asleep in his hut, then found himself being washed through the jungle tangled in his mossie net. It's a horendous story. Some of them got trapped under logs, bamboo and stuff. Holding their breath as long as they could. They all survived, but 264 locals from the village died.

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