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Three travelers narrowly miss catastrophe.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-DEC-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Three travelers narrowly miss catastrophe.(Disasters)(The Eugene residents witness a forceful wave on Koh Mook, an island sheltered from the worst of the tsunami disaster)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard

Jim Calkins is among the fortunate. The 53-year-old Eugene maintenance contractor, along with his 22-year-old daughter and her boyfriend, were vacationing in a beachfront bungalow on Koh Mook island off the west coast of Thailand on Sunday when the tsunami struck.

"All of a sudden it became very quiet," Calkins said early today from a hotel in the mainland Thai city of Krabi. "The sea receded out beyond normal - and then a roar."

The western beachfront on Koh Mook missed the worst of the tsunami. It was struck by a wave...

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