by RoyBatty » Sun Jan 27, 2013 9:14 pm
I survived the 2004 Tsunami. Was in Phuket. I would guesstimate that I personally saw around a dozen or more people lose their lives on that day, and one of them was a little Thai girl that couldn't have been more than 7.
The first thing I noticed when I returned to Bangkok and talked to my buds was that I was fighting back spontaneous laughter for about a week. Don't ask me why, I guess it was just neurons and synapses being overloaded and my brain's way of shaking it off was to get me laughing.
Either way, I saw the vid and all I took from it was a guy, having just experienced literally the worst thing that can happen to a father, trying to hype himself up before going on national TV, and that once he started to get in position, the reality started to hit him again. And that's how the brutality of this kind of stuff happens, it hits you when you're not expecting it, in waves of almost uncontrollable emotion. While it makes folks look like complete nutjobs, there's nothing untoward or strange about it, just based on what I've experienced.