re: #182 Mojave

Too bad those in Indonesia didn’t know before hand.

I’ll tell this story again because it’s an awesome story: somewhere in the Hindi-speaking area affected by the big tsunami, a man heard the noise, climbed to the roof of a nearby building, and saw the water gone out and the wave starting. He yelled to his wife to get the kids and run inland. She scooped up the baby and the toddler, and yelled to the six-year-old to follow her, but the kid was scared, and ran back into the house, instead.

She assumed he was gone, there wasn’t going to be time to go back, but the family dog went after him. Snarled, grabbed the kid with his teeth, barked at him—and somehow managed to get the kid out of the house and running up the hill after his mom. The whole family survived.

After that, the dog was considered by the family to be a reincarnation of the uncle who gave it to them when it was a puppy. And it got to sleep inside.

My favorite tsunami story.