Being here, it is just impossible to imagine what that was like, when the tsunami hit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.
I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.
We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.
Everybody has an idea of the tsunami of being a big wave. It is not a big wave. It is a huge amount of water that comes to land.
And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and the death of three thousand of out loved ones, it was a defining moment.
Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else.
I can't imagine my life any other way than it's been.
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?