Eduard Issel went on holiday to Thailand, Khao Lak, in 2006. Then, on the morning of December 26, the great flood suddenly came. The Viennese entrepreneur’s memories of the catastrophe, “which somehow made me a different person.”
When Viennese entrepreneur Eduard Issel (75) talks about the 2006 tsunami, he often uses the word fate. It was fate that during their holiday in Khao Lak, he and his wife stayed in a different hotel from the friends they had traveled to Thailand with; Fate that there was a reef in front of it; Tragically, he had recently seen a TV report about a devastating marine earthquake in Papua New Guinea, “and I therefore suspected what was going to happen” when he saw the water disappearing in front of him on the morning of December 26.
“The holidaymakers walked around on the beach, collecting shells or sitting on their deck chairs and watching the strange processes on the horizon, which they thought was a harmless natural phenomenon. I shouted to them, ‘Run quickly, terrible things are coming.’ But almost no one wanted to believe me.”
Source: Krone
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