Summary of chapter 2

In tsunami Ignesious , the manager of a cooperative society, lost two of his children, wife and father-in-law as he could not get alarmed by the tremor. Sanjeev was a policeman. He jumped into the water to rescue his cook’s wife, but they were both swept away.  Both Meghna’s and Almas’ families were washed away. Both of them kept floating in the sea for days. Meghna floated in the sea for two days holding on to a wooden door. She was brought to the shore by a wave. Similarly, Almas climbed on to a log of wood and fainted. She woke up in a hospital. Both the girls were traumatized after the incident. While Meghna was seen walking on the seashore in daze, Almas does not talk about the incident to anyone. Both of them were not noticed by relief helicopters. Tilly Smith (a British school girl ) was able to save many lives when the tsunami struck Phuket beach in Thailand as she had seen the sea behaving in the same way in a video in her class of a tsunami that had hit the Hawaiian islands in 1946. She had won a number of awards. The tourist thanked Tilly and her geography lesson that had warned her. Before tsunami in India and SriLanka, wild and domestic animals fled to safety, elephants ran for higher grounds; dogs refuse to go outdoors; flamingoes abandoned their low-lying breeding areas as seemed to know what was about to happen.  It is believed that animals either posses a sixth sense or have more acute hearing that helps them to hear or feel earth’s vibration. Near about 150,000 people killed in tsunami in a dozen countries but not many animals reported dead.

It's part one of tsunami lesson summary Part 1 consists of four stories of people who faced the deadly tsunami on December 26, 2004. It discusses how the lives of different people who hailed from the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago were impacted by the effect of the dreadful tsunami.In the first story, Ignesious was a manager of a cooperative society in Katchall. His wife woke him up at 6 a.m. when she could sense a few tremors. However, it was not just a simple earthquake, it was the sea rising. A tsunami had struck that place. The waves were so huge that it swept away his family including his wife, children, father-in-law and brother-in-law.In the second story of Part 1, a policeman named Sanjeev saved his family members comprising his wife and his baby daughter from the dangerous waves. However, he drowned while trying to rescue the guest house cook, John’s wife as the huge waves washed both of them away.The third incident of Part 1 is about a thirteen-year-old girl, Meghna who was swept away by the waves along with her parents and many other people. She was floating in the sea holding a wooden plank and was brought to shore by a wave. Although she was saved, she was completely dazed as she walked on the seashore.The fourth story of Part 1 is about Almas Javed, a ten-year-old girl. Her father had noticed that the seawater was receding after the tremors. He realised this was the sign of a bigger danger so he warned everyone to take shelter in a safer place. While he was helping others, a huge wave came and washed away Almas’s father along with her grandfather. Slowly her entire family was swept away, while Almas had climbed on a floating wooden log and fainted. When she woke up, she found herself in a hospital in Kamorta. She was so traumatised that she never talked about the incident with anyone.