http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/8.html Click on both Before and After images. Click NEXT llink to move through aerial photos.
some of those pics of a coastline looked like they were taken right before it hit. It appeared that they were taken when all the water was being sucked back into to ocean before the wave came in. A group from our church (including 16 doctors) had their tickets and visas all set to go to southern India to help at a clinic. They were planning the trip for over a year -- they got there Friday.