The owner of our company and senior management ( 20 in all with kids ) were in Phuket when the Tsunami hit ... in fact the VP of sales & marketing and the owner were snorkeling when the wave came in ( wife of VP watching in horror from the hotel windows
and owners wife & kids stopped in hotel lobby to do some shopping prolly saved their lives )
We were really worried for them till we heard the good news that just some bumps and scrapes were all they got and they all survived.