Tsunami, in stark detail.

Just screwing around on Youtube, I got into the Tsunami of Xmas 2004, don't know how or why I got there, as Tolkien wrote, "way leads on to way", and Youtube/google may be the ultimate expression of that. Anyhoo, this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agCG-rPqM6A#tsunami-hitting-koh-phi-phi-island video in particular caught my eye, and I started digging around and found it was this resort: http://phi-phi.com/. Nice place, just a little water coming over the seawall, right? Hold on there, Cap'n, Take a gander here:
Beautiful island, right? Let's look a little closer shall we? What the hell happened? An brigade of Bulldozers? Huge Army ants? Nope, that's what that seemingly small amount of water did in the space of 5 minutes, shown in this cute video:http://www.inet.co.th/tsunami/images/PP_45B_2_320.mov

5 minutes. By the time you had say turned on "When the Levee BreaksWhen The Levee Breaks" and listened all the way through, the central part of the isthmus was swept clean. Note the clean demarcation of the treeline. Very much like this photo from the Lituya Bay shoreline in 1958, when a tsunami was created by a landslide, and rolled up a narrow bay, destroying everything up to a certain height. This is why I don't like swimming, people. At any second, danger can kill you from any direction.