The absence of police and army had forced this group of survivors to stay with the very helpful Da Silva family up at the Unawatuna Temple.

They had been living there for 2 days until most of them where evacuated to Kandy.

Among them had been a Dutch family with four children from which one of them had almost lost it`s life, when the watchman of Surfcity, Kalu had pulled her out of the water.

Unfortunately he himself had to get over the loss of his mother, who had died in the flood at the age of 78.

Kalu had to identify her under a huge pile of dead bodies at the hospital in Galle.