Big Damange (Essay 2) - Siritus

Big Damange
Thailand was one of the countries worst affected by the tsunami in December 2004. One million people were directly affected and more than thousands went missing. It was caused by an underwater earthquake. The tsunami rolled many kilometers into the land from the sea. I lived in Southern Thailand. My hometown is Phuket and my house is not really far from the sea. My family has owned business for twenty years. Before the natural disaster happened, Phuket had a good economcy because many tourists come to visit Phuket. Most people have a good life because they have job and good income. Everything was lost when the tsunami came. Many people were missing, died and got injured. My family was affected by the tsunami gone, and we have had many problems since that day.
The first consequence of the tsunami was that my family had to rebuild building. I had lived my hometown since 1972. My family worked on this business for long time. Everybody in my family was very happy. After the tsunami came, everything changed and we had a big problem. The tsunami destroyed everything. We had to fix building, and repair stuff in my house. The big wave bough lot of water to my house. My father spent a lot of money fixing our building. My house is very old so it is difficult to find spare parts to fix it.




Second, the tsunami caused the economy of my area to fall down. Before the natural disaster happened, the economy in Phuket was very good. We had tourists visit Phuket more than one million per year. People in Phuket had a good jobs and good income. When the tsunami came, everything shut down and people lost their jobs. One of my friends lost members of her family. My family was affected from this situation too. People didn’t have enough money to spend and we lost a lot of income. We had to bring money that we kept in the bank to support our business.
Finally, due to this situation, the stress in my family because very serious. The personal relationships in my family are not as good as before because everybody got very stressed out. We always did activities together, and we went to travel every year. After the tsunami came everything changed. Now, we are very serious and don’t understand each other. My mom had to found a new job to help my father and support our business. We didn’t spent time together anymore. My friend in Phuket she had resort by the sea, but when the big wave came, everything was gone in ten minutes and she lost her house.
Four years have passed since the tsunami of December 2004. It is not easy to forget that day. I have had many changes in my life. We spent a lot of money to rebuild my house. We interrupt each other in my family. We lost a lot of income. Many families are waiting for people help them and some people they don’t have house anymore. They have to restart again. It is not easy to rebuild everything in one or two years. It was the worst experienced in my life.