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Survivor of History’s Deadliest Tsunami Relives ‘I’m Dying Today’ Terror and Loss (Video)
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Survivor of History’s Deadliest Tsunami Relives ‘I’m Dying Today’ Terror and Loss (Video)

Surfer·Dashel Pierson·about 16 hours ago
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At 27, Andrew Chaggar was on the trip of a lifetime, traveling through Asia with his girlfriend, Nova. But on December 26, 2004, everything changed. The couple was sleeping in a beachfront bungalow in Khao Lak, Thailand, just 100 feet from the ocean, when Chaggar woke to a thunderous roar, which he compared to “a jet engine building up for take-off.” Nova was standing beside the bed, frightened. Seconds later, the first tsunami wave hit. The bungalows fell “like dominoes,” Chaggar recalled in a recent LADbible Stories interview . He remembers being inside one moment, then suddenly in the water, surrounded by splintered buildings and debris. It felt like a “washing machine full of nails.” “We heard this incredible roar,” Chaggar recalled in a harrowing interview detailing the disaster. Within seconds, a massive wall of black water smashed through their accommodation.…

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