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‘If you survive this, you somehow must share it’: reliving the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

A harrowing docuseries looks back at the deadly Boxing Day tsunami that killed over 225,000, speaking to survivorsOn Christmas day, 2004, Chris Xaver arrived in Phuket, a popular tourist destination on the south-west coast of Thailand, for a brief holiday. It was already dark by the time she and her then husband, Scott, got to the hotel; she couldn’t see the ocean, but could smell the saltwater of a beach vacation. The next morning, she had just stepped out of the shower when water started flooding their sea-level bungalow. Thinking the water main had broken, they called the front desk. No answer. Outside the bungalow, they saw the remnants of what they assumed was a rogue wave. “The lexicon, the word tsunami, was not in our brain,” Xaver recalled.Twenty years on, she remembers standing...

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