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Originally Posted by Ozskin
I was in a ground floor room near the paradise complex. I woke up at 8am (i was due to go out early and watch the cricket). As i lay half awake, my girl rolls over and says the bed has been moving for a couple of minutes. WTF ?
Funnily enough we had watched The Exorcist that night, so my first thought in my half awake mode is we have some fcukin ghost in the room having a go. So i lay there trying to feel it shakin. All of a sudden the bed starts moving like someone is standing at the end of the bed gently shaking the bed in all directions. Definately could feel it. I lay there for about a minute, then it stopped. Honestly earthquake never crossed my mind (i come from an area thats never had one). I thought it might be construction in the area.
When i arrived at the bar at 9:30am, a guy said he had been having breakfast in a cafe somewhere in patong. He said the building had moved a little bit, with things in the shop swaying etc. He reckons some people were running out of the shop.
Another guy in the bar during the tsunami was standing there with us and watched his car go floating past at a rate of knots, smashing into all and sundry as it went.
Ill always remember his response... shrugs his shoulders and says "oh well the cars fcuked!"
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Where you watching it from that Aussie Bar up the stairs (guess they would have had the boxing day test on live)...that would have been some eye opener
How far did the water actually get up banga Road....all the way to Rat-u-Thit Road and further ?