Of course\nthere had been warnings. The Met Office issued \na statement for \u2018the people of Great Britain.\u2019 This statement consisted\nof a lacklustre attempt to inform us what to do in the event of a flood.\nSwansea City citizens were to pop down to the Civic Centre and collect 5\nsandbags. I ask you\u2026..how are people going to carry 5 sandbags up\nConstitution Hill?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
However, I\nhad noticed the moon was rather bent and I thought that perhaps an asteroid had\ncome down onto the surface and that could cause a high tide like we often have\nin Swansea. Nobody really believed we would ever face a Tsunami. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
George knew\nabout these things: \u201cIt\u2019s the tectonic\nplates see Martha, they must be sliding over each other. Either that, or a volcano has erupted at the\nbottom of the sea. A volcanic eruption might be happening thousands of miles\naway.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whatever the\ncause of the great wave, we just didn\u2019t believe it would happen to Swansea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, a month\nago we woke to the sound of screaming and radios blaring, encouraging everyone\nto find the highest place possible because there was, in fact, a Tsunami\nripping its way towards us. For an hour\nafter that, after all the shouts from the radio, everywhere went deathly quiet.\nThere were no birds singing and the air was full of menace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
George and I\nrushed to the front bedroom and squeezed into George\u2019s wardrobe. The noise\nand speed of the approaching wave could\nhave come from a Hollywood movie. \nTravelling at 600 mph, the wave grew as it approached the shore of\nSwansea Bay. It then carried on and finally crashed somewhere near the\nCarmarthen Road. It repeated this 6 times. I was amazed by the strength of the\nlong fingers of the waves dragging the debris of the city out to sea,\nKraken-like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
George and I\nsurvived in a strange way. His wardrobe\nbecame wedged between the very solid school gates. We watched cars, buses,\nwhite vans doing cartwheels where there were once roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We now live\non an island which looks straight out over the water onto what was Swansea Bay.\nAll around us are bits of buildings that are familiar. Behind the school and\ndown to Brynmill Lane, near the edge of the park, it is full of water. I worry\nabout my friend Jo. The water is above the level of her house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
George and I\nare going to attempt to use Dave\u2019s canoe today. Who knows what we will find? We\nhave had no contact with the world outside of Swansea, no Met Office\nexplanations nor help from the Welsh Assembly Government. George and I are\ncynical now. We just do not believe we will get any help from the authorities,\nbut we will find like-minded people \u2026.. We will watch for asteroids kicking the\nmoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wish us luck\n! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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