The Village is Gone

She is believed to be one of only a few survivors of her tiny fishing village. Maitri Sayput, 47, realized that the tidal wave was coming. She put all three of her children on her bike and started pedaling inland as fast as she could before the waves overtook them. She and one of the children was washed some 27 miles inland. The other's were torn away by the waves and remain unaccounted for. Her husband, a fisherman, is also missing.

The village is gone. No houses, apartments, grocery shops, places of worship remain. Her neighbors are gone. All of her family. except for one, gone. In it's place, a sea of mud.