Yale feels ripples of tsunami disaster
On the morning of Dec. 26, Carl Farrington '65 was on the beach enjoying a family vacation in Poda Island, Thailand, when, he said, "suddenly, the ocean just went vertical."
Three waves hit about 10 minutes apart, Farrington said, each coming from a different direction.
"Literally I looked up and there was a wall of water, probably 20 or 30 feet high," he said. "My wife and I just ran and headed to the interior of the island."
He and his family narrowly escaped the tsunami's deadly pull. He considers himself lucky to have survived.
"If you had been...
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