My family were ripped away in Boxing Day tsunami - I saw them moments before, then the water hit
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2024
- Twenty years to the day since a tsunami ripped through Thailand’s beach resorts survivor Sharon Howard sobbed as she laid flowers at the hotel where she last saw her fiance and two sons.
While families gathered across the country to celebrate Christmas together, Sharon was 6,000 miles from her home in Hayle, Cornwall, in the beach resort of Khao Lak where she still feels closest to David Page, 44, and her sons Mason, eight, and six year old Taylor who all tragically died on Boxing Day 2004.
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Sorry for your loss. I was there. So lucky to be alive
ตอนที่คลื่นซัดฉันอายุเพียงเจ็ดขวบ แต่ฉันจำได้ชัดเจนเหมือนเมื่อวาน
How did this woman carry on for so long? The amount of pain she suffers will never fade. She has to be one of the strongest people alive at this point.
I wish I could give her a hug.
What choice does she have
@DonnellOkafor-r2d Ending it all? The fact that she didn't, is a testament to her strength!
@@charlalar14 can you imagine being torn between a mother's instinct to find her children (which is second to none) and the in-built self-preservation in all humans to survive.
This is heartbreaking... 😢
As a mother.. Not knowing where your kids are is such a sickening, terrifying thing to go through..
The strength this Woman posseses is amazing. She lost her whole family and reasons for getting up every day in seconds.
People look longer for their lost pets than she looked for her children
@dianapatterson4657 😩 also true..
@@dianapatterson4657well, you are an ignorant, not to mention unempathetic, person who apparently does not understand the conditions after the waves there. Foreigners apart from the rescue teams were not even allowed to stay in the most damaged areas.
I'm so sorry for your loss, I can't even imagine.
When you think you've got problems just look at this lady 😔 heartbreakingly sad 😢💔
Brutal!
That terrible feeling of knowing what will happen and not being able to do anything.
Then living with the result.
I met a survivor and he had to identify his friends 🥹 he told me he could only tell it was them by the watches they were wearing as the bodies go a different colour etc after being submerged in water. Rest in peace to all involved who sadly lost their lives and thoughts to all affected 😢
God bless this woman.
There's always one, isn't there!
If your god exists, then why allow such things to happen?
@Yossarian. And there are always more than one. Nasty, negative, disrespectful Atheist's. That have to respond to a comment that mentions anything about God. Learn how to respect others opinions. As their opinions, are equally to yours.
@@Yossarian. God is good, we are not. Every human ever born sins against their Creator. We go against His perfect commands. We are the reason this world is fallen. We caused sickness & death & destruction. People even murd€red the son of God on a torture device when He was dying for our sins. Turn to God. Don’t depend on your ‘good works’ to save you. Please think on it.
"Can I call you Daddy now" Such a shame, RIP.
Oh my god, I was only thinking about this poor woman a few days ago.
I think about her every time something reminds me of the tsunami.
My heart bleeds for her every time I think of her loss.
I just don't know how someone gets past it.
I think the boyfriend was trying to hold her out of the water?
And I thought she found a shoe belonging to one of the boys?
So tragic
God bless you darling.
So much loss.
Such a brave lady ❤️❤️❤️
What lovely little boys - both look full of life and mischief! I can not imagine the depth of loss. So sorry Sharon.
What an amazing woman❤️
Terrible woman. She high tailed it out of there as quick as she could. Didn't even try and look for her children in the aftermath, then returned home and got straight to partying. If you think that makes her an amazing woman then there may be something wrong with you
Heartache for families 20yrs ago. And more heartache only yesterday for the families of those mowed down in London by one of the regular attacks from religious zealots.
What's that? I've not seen that anywhere in the media?
@@richardbritain7435 Shaftsbury Avenue central London about 2pm yesterday. Another follower of " Allan's Snackbar " tried to copy the German attack by ploughing into crowds on the street with his car. Maybe because of todays mass protests in Germany and the anger over the attack they don't like the thought of us doing the same.
I agree. And yet, even here, we find the religious lo0ns invoking gods' blessings as if it will make it all better.
Get you facts right it was a dispute in a nightclub that spilled over no mention of any zealots religious or otherwise but dont let the truth stop you spouting crap and hijacking a story for your own agenda
Stop fabricating. The person involved in that incident was as British as it gets who was "involved in an altercation at a nightclub prior to getting in his car and mounting the pavement", and not from a religion you like to slan der. It's just the usual suspects, very british.
What an amazing and remarkable woman.
Terrible mother. People look longer for lost pets than she did for her children
This poor woman. I just cannot imagine what she went through. I'm glad she had the strength to get through it and find some coping mechanism.
People look longer for lost pets than she looked for her children
So sorry for your loss 😢
Heartbreaking story from this brave lady How did she manage over the last 20 years
Phew just can’t imagine
This is only one story out of thousands
Massive respect to you lovely lady ✊💕👍
Dear Sharon, and to so many others, your story is so painful and real yet difficult to imagine. There are things that happen in life that we never thought possible. 9/11 New York, the sudden passing of someone you love dearly, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and so many natural disasters...wars and more. People die and leave this earthly dimension. These tragedies are out of our control. However, Christmas is a time to remember the birth of our Lord and the suffering He endured too. This gives us hope and comfort when we know that our Lord holds every pain and suffering that brings us grief in His embrace until we can unite again with loved ones . He is taking care of them from the moment we lose them, that moment when they move on from earth and become one in the spirit of God. It helps when we do believe there is a greater power beyond this realm which brought us here in the first place. Every morning comes with hope and it is that reassuring feeling we carry on with to keep us going. When Prince Phillip passed away I felt that our Queen would be devastated, at Her age. She too might have found it difficult to go on at a time when Her entire philosophy of " Keep calm and carry on" became complicated in her family. If we have faith in God then we can endure with some better days but we then have to do it for ourselves and others who are around us needing a a very small bit of help to keep calm and go on in life. Faith helps. Caring for others helps. God takes care of us. Many good wishes for strength and hope as you push forward for your own happiness towards being mentally strong and peaceful again. Prayers and blessings. From Trinidad and Tobago. ❤
20 yrs 😢❤
Devastating, absolutely devastating 😢
This is heartbreaking
God bless you in Jesus name
What's Jesus got to do with anything?
Show some respect! May the Lord Jesus Christ lead you into the light 🙏✝️@@MCorrigan
@@stevewood7884 you're talking rubbish. Where was Jesus for these people? You're brainwashed.
@@MCorrigan you think Christians are brain washed ... don't look at Muslims as they are happy with death
@@stevewood7884 delusional beliefs aren’t deserving of respect.
God bless you pal hope you find some sort of normality whatever that may be strong wee woman x
If I recall, wasn’t there a movie about this?
They all survived in that film though
Yes, "the impossible" based on a real family who all managed to survive and find each other again.
What a tragedy. Sending love ❤
I am so sorry, I am 46 with a beautiful family and a 14 year old, I only have one. God bless you at least no one can take your memories away from you, you e got bea😢moments that you have cherished be thankful that you have had those moments , god bless you 🎉
you can see it hasn't gotten any easier for her
I am so sorry for your loss ❤
What an incredible woman 😢
That blip by her face ❤
Sorry for your loss my condolences to you and all your family
Do your best to keep the people you love in your life close to you . thers not a day i dont miss or regret not being able to be with my beautiful children..hold on with everything.
Im so sorry for your pain
Only you know what you are going through
GOD will reunite you with your loved ones 🙏
U are such a strong g woman❤
Just heartbreaking.
And Merry Christmas to you lot too...Obviously drowning in your own misery...Couldnt imagine how this lady feels...
So sorry to hear about your sadness losing your family members 😢😢😢😢
All I hear is she wanted to get away and to safety, some survivors wouldn't leave and kept on the search for their family
Let's refrain from judging, she was physically hurt ( head injury) seen her husband dead. with no doubt survival guilt after. Who knows what any of us would do unless actually faced with such a terrifying situation in a place that wasn't home.
Exactly. There is something off about her. She couldn't wait to get out of there. People look longer for lost pets.
@@dianapatterson4657 Did you not hear the women had a head injury...knocked unconscious twice...God people are horrible.Also witnessing the devastation she probably already knew the boys were gone. Have some compassion.
@sinceresong9907 what? And there was absolutely no chance that they survived? Many did.
@@dianapatterson4657 THE WOMEN NEARLY DIED HERSELF>>>TRAUMA...look it up head injuries and trauma responses...
Poor lady
I don't think so. I would not have left. I would have searched for my babies for more that a few minutes. Also when she came back she turned into a slag
May yeshua bless your boys soul an grant you peace in your life.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Jesus things like this put things right in to perspective x
Heartbreaking ❤
Heartbreaking 💔
Alhamdulillah that’s very hard to know what it feels like to have your entire family taken away from you never to see them again in this life again, now you can relate to those who have!
What an evil thing to say shame on you I’m Muslim and English people are very kind and welcome Muslim people in their country and all different types of people escaping war torn countries, and we live in peace in Islam it says to respect and live in peace with people like this, it’s Muslims like you that give good people a bad name what a horrible terrible thing to say losing a child for anyone is the worst
How is it RUclips deleted my comment the other day about how I was able to vary my autistic son's diet, but you are able to post this? Shame on you.
God bless u mom 😢
God bless you 💖 🙏 💐
So very sad. I wonder if their bodies were ever found, for her to bury to have some kind of peace.
God bless you
Requiescant in Pace 🌹
Like the boxing day matters
They will go to these silly places.
Tsunami never happened
ตอนที่คลื่นซัดฉันอายุเพียงเจ็ดขวบ แต่ฉันจำได้ชัดเจนเหมือนเมื่อวาน
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I would have searched for my babies for more than 5 minutes
You weren't there so you don't know what it was like. Your inference is that she either didn't care about her children, or not as much as you do for yours, which is clearly nonsense. Have you not heard of the saying "if you've got nothing good to say, don't say anything at all"?!
@trance_trousers no, never heard that in my life. listen to her story , she didn't even return to try find them. She got home and started partying. Almost as if she was glad she didn't have the responsibility.
@@dianapatterson4657 Yes, I did listen to her story and, like I said before, you weren't there and didn't experience what happened to her. You have no idea what it was like. Maybe she couldn't return to search for them, maybe this, maybe that - you don't KNOW why she didn't. Instead all you can do is speculate and think the worst of this woman. No compassion and no understanding, what a wonderful human being you are.
@trance_trousers what I DO know is that she left her babies came home as quickly as humanly possible then was straight for the streets. That is what I know because she told us.
I know found that Strange she didn’t look more 😮
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Love care support at this time of the year sending love this Christmas 🎄
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sad story but it's a fact of life.. get over it man.
How callous of you to say such a thing.
@@elizabethtobin6894 i mean it's true, 20 years and they are still going on about it? we have all had grief but you have to move on.
Ad not b here if my family got took away a cud not go on tgink death b better than pain she go thro
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You are not the only one who's loss someone lady
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So sorry for your loss. Take comfort in Jehovah’s promise of the resurrection when you will see your loved ones again alive. 🙏🏾
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slow news week is it
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The Tsunami had a right to defend itself
Be quiet
@ you’re being anti-Tsunamic. I’m going to report you.
Cringe
Cruel comment . Hope you can sleep at night .
@MichealHarris-il6zi but when you say Israel has the right to defend itself by killing innocent children then it’s totally okay?
What a sad tragedy😢😢
Jesus Christ are we still milking this?
Exactly. But the is less chance of our media upsetting a minority to report this than show a current fact/reality report about the grieving families of those attacked yesterday in London by another " Allan's Snackbar " religious zealot.
Milking? May you never experience the hurt this woman has had to feel.
Milking??
What’s wrong with you!?
Heartfelt
I was there on RFA Diligence one of the ships sent to help out
Soo sad .
Should of stayed at home why go to a place it’s prone to it
Obviously not thinki its gonna happen and trying to take her boys on an adventure you absolute helmet
surely rare.. Thailand is still popular
What a sick comment. This was a once in a generation event. No-one had any idea . Cant you just show some empathy with a woman who lost her children and fiance rather than blame them?
What a stupid comment!
You should HAVE learned to write to the level of a 6 year old by now, but you haven't 🤷🏼♂️
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