Tsunami Patrol

I was working on the Asian Tsunami story outside of Phuket in a destroyed fishing village when I came upon a large gathering of Buddhist monks.  As luck would have it my driver could not get a name or location where they were from, just that they had come to pray for the dead.  The Asian tsunami of 2004 resulted in at least 227,898 fatalities.   Ten thousand died in Thailand alone. Entire Thai fishing villages were wiped out.