As panic around them grew, her sister grabbed Haiwati's 10-year-old son and fled. Haiwati started running again with her terrified seven-year old boy, Sikno, but she was too weak and became separated from her sister. Seconds later the water caught up, washing her into the Lamteneung mosque.
She saw dozens of people clinging to the roof of the wooden village hall.
As the water rose, she lifted Sikno onto her shoulders. "Then I thought, 'okay, if I die at least I'll die with my boy," Haiwati said, Sikno standing shyly beside her.
At that moment, she said, a jerry can washed in through one of the mosque's windows and floated toward her.
"I had no energy left. I just stood there looking at it. Then I held onto it, with my son," she said.
"I guess yes, that was a miracle."
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