December 29th, 2004 by purplelara
copy of email sent during trip to Thailand, December 2004 – January 2005
Got a flight tomorrow (Dec 30 here, which will be the 29th there) to Bangkok. The earliest we could get. Want to get out of here! Everyone is all paranoid & you keep hearing things like “another wave hit Phi Phi!!! go up the hill, hurry!!!!” Then nothing happens. a dead body washed up down the beach yesterday and I suspect more will come down from Phuket & Phi Phi. Will write again from Bangkok. love you all!
December 28th, 2004 by purplelara
December 27th, 2004 by purplelara
copy of email sent during trip to Thailand, December 2004 – January 2005
Hi everyone. Hotmail seems to be down so I’m emailing from here. If you notice a name missing, would you mind forwarding this, because I don’t have my addresses in my this email account. thanks.
Just a note to let you know we’re OK here in Lanta. Not everyone is, so we are very lucky. Everyone we are with is fine, thankfully. We were on a boat trip yesterday – when we returned our bungalows were pretty much destroyed. We were in the boat when the tidal wave hit – luckily far enough out that we didn’t see much. If we had left 10 minutes later, we would have been in emerald cave when it hit – that is the cave you swim through to the beach. We saw the wave hit it as we were leaving, we heard there may be up to 20 people dead there – that would be my worse nightmare being trapped in that cave and swamped with water.
The scene back at Somewhere Else was apparently quite chaotic. A woman next to us saw two people swept off to their deaths by the huge waves, and several people were injured by all the flying furniture. One man died after being hit by some. We hear that there are about 10 dead on Lanta, more on Phi Phi and lots in Phuket.
Our bungalow is destroyed – there is a huge log smashed though the side facing the beach – where the bed is. We had absolutely nothing when we got back – our knapsacks, clothes, everything were gone. We had to walk up the road and up a hill to higher ground where we spent the night with everyone else, sleeping in the dirt. Luckily we had air mattresses. It was not a good night, but much better than many had that night, I suspect.
We are in town now and email is horribly slow. I think we will be here two more days – had to move to a guest house up from the bungalows, as ours is wrecked. We had to buy new clothes today too. We did find most of our stuff strewn about the grounds, but it are completely saturated with water and sand.
Time to head back in and have a shower. It will be an early night tonight. Very thankful to all be safe!!!!!!
Can someone save me the papers for the next few days? There is no tv and no papers here, everything we are hearing is through the grapevine. I’m not sure if the earthquake was in Sri Lanka or Sumatra or…I forget the other place I heard. Oh Bangladesh? I heard there were two and one was 8.9?? So many people dead, SO awful. Anyways, better run. I will try to check the other email later, people here are waiting. Love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 23rd, 2004 by purplelara
December 19th, 2004 by purplelara