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Aesih Irawan was drinking iced tea at a friend's house near the beach in Pangandaran, a resort town on the Indonesian island of Java, when the ocean crashed through the living room. The 27-year-old housewife was seized by the churning water and carried hundreds of meters down the beach before she became tangled in cable, which prevented her being swept out to sea. Irawan survived, but almost 700 people were killed, nearly 1,000 injured and some 20,000 families left homeless by the July 17 tsunami that hit a 177-km stretch of Java. Triggered...
...Aesih Irawan, tragedy was averted, but she wonders what will happen the next time the earth shakes. Last week, refugee camps in the hills of Pangandaran were still packed with survivors too scared to return home while soldiers dug for corpses along the beach. "I'm very happy to be alive," Irawan says. "But every time I feel an aftershock, I feel like that may change." In catastrophe-plagued Indonesia, you never know when the next warning?if there is one?may be the last...
Like thousands of Indonesians, Aesih Irawan went to the beach in west Java on Monday to have some fun with her friends. At her friend's house, near Pangandaran beach, she was drinking iced tea and watching TV when suddenly water came crashing through the living room. "Before I knew it I was underwater," recalls the 27-year-old housewife and mother of one. "There was no warning and we didn't even feel the earthquake...
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