By: E&P Staff Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs got an unexpected, unwanted scoop this weekend when he happened to witness, at exceedingly close range, a huge surge of water unleashed by the giant Indian Ocean earthquake.
The stronget quake in 40 years caused enormous waves --called tsunamis -- which killed more than 21,000.
Dobbs was taking a morning swim under blues skies near an island his brother had purchased just off a beautiful beach in Sri Lanka when he noticed the water suddenly rising, dangerously.
It swept him toward shore, and then pulled him rapidly out to sea, before he grabbed for dear life onto a catamaran.
Meanwhile, houses on shore were flooded and the whole picture seemed "like a scene from the Bible," he writes in Monday's Washington Post.
He "half-expected" to see Noah's Ark. A strong swimmer, he finally reached shore.
Screams came from houses on shore. Dobbs found his wife wandering on a road, dazed but unhurt. His children were also safe.
The island has no electricity but Dobbs feels "fortunate to be alive."
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