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Dateline NBC

Swept Away

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, two young people from opposite sides of the world find themselves falling in love on the eve of one of the biggest natural disasters in recent memory. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on April 27, 2014.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everything just began to shake.

0:04.0

Just kept asking, where is she? Have you seen her?

0:09.0

I would know what I'd do without her.

0:12.0

It looked like the world was ended.

0:17.0

Growing up in Indiana, tsunami's earthquakes are the things that you only see in Hollywood films.

0:22.0

He was sure his world had ended.

0:25.0

The love of his life was missing.

0:27.0

That feeling that she's not alright began growing as each minute went by.

0:32.0

Strangers in a strange land, they'd fallen in love, then the quake hit, and all he knew was that her town was gone.

0:41.0

Literally come hell and high water, I was getting into that damn town.

0:45.0

And that's where he headed, right into that hell, willing to risk his life to try to save hers.

0:52.0

His fire is on the hill, fire on the water.

0:57.0

But could he get there in time?

0:59.0

I never loved someone who had left Georgia.

1:02.0

I'm Lester Holt, and this is Deadline.

1:06.0

Here's Keith Morrison with Sweat De Way.

1:11.0

Who can say what lurks out there?

1:14.0

Past the horizon, waiting impersonally, utterly at random.

1:19.0

As thousands of lives tick to their undying ends.

1:22.0

And simple coincidence, a young man from Middle America made a single decision.

1:29.0

Could you imagine back there in Indiana, you were about to make your life flip on its head this morning?

1:36.0

No, never.

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