i was staying in a hotel right on the seafront of patong beach, which was hit by the tsunami.the tsunami. so i was a little bit, being at christmas day night, and i was sleeping, and then there was a lot of banging on the door like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang! and i could hear screaming and shouting. i was like, "oh, i can't, i can't get out of bed. i'm just going to go to sleep." and then there was like a massive roar and a bang. and that was the tsunami smashing into the seafront and the hotel. and i was like, "what's that noise?" i didn't have no idea what it was. and then i sort of, i thought, "well, i've got to get up now and see what's happening." and there was no, no light, no electric. and i was like, open the door to my room that was looking over into the reception. and it was like a bomb. it was just everything was destroyed. there was cars, there was water. there was just there was people dead, like floating in the water. and it was just a scene of... it was just devastating. like, i thought a bomb had actually gone off when i opened the door. and i managed t