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BANDA ACEH, JAN. 1. Unlike most people living along Aceh's beaches, Hugh Crawford knew the sea rushing out in the wake of Sunday's quake spelt trouble. "I had heard that this meant a tsunami was on its way," said the 70-year-old Briton who had built a holiday home on Monkey Beach, on the west coast near Lhok Nga, a village about 17 km outside Banda Aceh. "We'd spent much of our time there since I retired from the cement factory just up the road. It was a great place." But now Mr. Crawford, who has only one leg, knew it was time to get everyone up into the mountains quickly. "If the sea's going out then it's got to come back in,'' he said. ``And when it comes back in it's going to be much much bigger than what it was like before." His fear was driven by the size of the quake. "We heard the rumble and then felt the quake," he said. "I told everyone to get away from the house. Everything was shaking and the house was swaying from side to side. It lasted about three minutes."
- Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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