You can see the tsunami pulling back out to sea after it struck at Kalutara, south of Colombo on this island
... Prasantha, Colombo, Sri Lanka ... 
At breakfast we looked out to sea and commented that we could see "surf" and ... 
even thinking in terms of deaths until and after I got back home and ... tsunami hit 
my parent's house in Wadduwa, which is on the south west... [DOC] [TLE] Race to Bury Asia's Dead as Toll Hits 68,000 - Free Republic [PAR] Dec 28, 2004 ... Disease could kill as many people as those killed by the wall of water, ...