Tsunami Disaster – a foretaste of the apocalypse.
The largest earthquake in the past 40 years and the resulting deaths of around 150,000 people from 33-foot tidal waves was described by Gordon Brown as a disaster of almost biblical proportions. This thought was echoed by Washington Post reporter, Michael Dobbs, who was swimming off a Sri Lanka island when the tidal wave flooded in: ‘The speed with which it all happened seemed like a scene from the Bible – a natural phenomenon unlike anything I had experienced before.’ He went on to write in the paper: ‘Disaster struck with no warning out of a faultlessly clear blue sky. ...
I was a quarter way around the island when I heard my brother shouting at me, “Come back! Come back! There's something strange happening with the sea.”’