To Hela, re: tsunami

Dear Hela,
The entire second sentence is:

The wall of water up to 10 meters(30 ft) tall flattened houses, hurled fishing boats onto coastal roads, sent cars spinning through swirling waters into hotel lobbies and sucked sunbathers, babies and fishermen off beaches and out to sea.

This is a Reuters news article entitled "Asia Tsunami kills 15,500, Rush to Find Bodies" and published on the Retuers site on December 27th.