On 26th December,2004,a young girl called Tilly Smith was on holiday with her family in Phuket, Thailand. No one knew what was about to happen -a tsunami(海啸)that would kill about 200,000 people Tilly had studied tsunami in her geography class and had seen video of tsunami.

        "My mum didn’t realize what was happening," said Tilly. But Tilly did. “I saw this bubbling(冒泡).on the water which looked as if it was being heated up, and was making a strange noise. The water was coming in, but it wasn't going out again. It was coming in, and in. towards the hotel."

        She turned to her mother and sister and told them that it was a tsunami. At first they did not believe her. She was only 10 years Old. Maybe she was just hoping to see tsunami because she had studied it?

        Tilly's father went back to the hotel with her sister. They told the people who worked in the hotel what Tilly had said. Tilly ran out to the beach, to warn the people there. The hotel workers believed Tilly. They began to get people off the beach. Only a few minutes later, a huge wave swept over the beach. The beach was one of the few beaches in Phuket where no one was killed or seriously hurt. This was all because of 10-year-old Tilly Smith. She and all her family escaped(撤离).