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00:00It didn't feel like water. It just felt like 50 tons of concrete coming from every single
00:08direction. I just remember shutting my eyes.
00:12It was a monster. The world hasn't seen anything like that before.
00:20The final death toll was in the hundreds of thousands.
00:25The worst of mother nature brought out the best of human nature.
00:31Such an Aussie thing of how do we help. The Australian generosity was really like
00:35rising. The telephone and the cricket game started
00:38to come together. Everyone was in.
00:41The energy was electric. This was like Australia's Band-Aid moment.
00:4620 years on, Australia returns to the shores that shook the world.
00:54I had no idea that his wife and daughter was alive.
00:56It makes me cry. A major television event.
01:00Everyone's got a story and everybody's been to hell and back.
01:04Tsunami 20 years on, Sunday December 8 on Nine.