nomembername Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 She is a Victoria Secret model who was dragged out to see w/ her boyfriend, Simon Atlee during the tsunami while they were vacationing in Thailand....her boyfriend is missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michelle65 Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 Jet-setting supermodel Petra Nemcova survived the terrifying Asian tsunami by clinging to the top of a palm tree for eight hours - wincing through the pain of a broken pelvis and haunted by the sight of her boyfriend being swept out to sea."This huge wave just pulled us out of the house," Nemcova, 25, told the Daily News last night from her hospital bed in Thailand. "It was so powerful I couldn't get up. I couldn't get out of it.""People were screaming and kids were screaming all over the place, screaming, 'Help, help.' And after a few minutes, you didn't hear the kids anymore."Nemcova and her fashion photographer boyfriend Simon Atlee, 33, were spending the holidays in a beachfront bungalow at the Thai resort of Khao Lak when Sunday's catastrophe struck."I heard people screaming and I looked out the window and people were jumping out of the way, jumping into the pool," said Nemcova, who lives in New York and London and was on the cover of Sports Illustrated's 2003 swimsuit issue."I was screaming, 'On the roof! On the roof!' I tried to go on the roof but I got sucked away," Nemcova said.Before she and Atlee could react, a wall of water shredded their wooden bungalow and sent them sprawling into a churning sea of debris that swallowed Atlee without a trace.She kept her head above the floodwaters and was able to grasp a palm tree before she could be swept out to sea - but had to clutch it for eight hours, watching bodies float past in a scene of unimaginable devastation."I just tried to survive and tried to think positive," Nemcova said. She gripped the tree in excruciating pain under the burning tropical sun until rescuers found her at sunset and carried her to an overwhelmed local hospital on a makeshift stretcher."I was so broken, I couldn't walk," Nemcova said. "There were so many people with horrible injuries, with blood everywhere. It was like a war movie."Nemcova was airlifted to an inland hospital, where doctors found she had a broken pelvis and serious internal injuries."There might be pieces of bone stuck to my organs," said Nemcova, who was medicated with morphine but still agonized at her boyfriend's disappearance."I can't find Simon," she said. "It was horrible. I'm very lucky, but I can't find Simon."In New York, her sister Olga Nemcova, 23, and friend Jamison Ernest, a fashion designer, knew only that Nemcova and Atlee were vacationing somewhere near the exotic island of Phuket.Using credit card records, Internet searches and international cell phone calls, they launched a marathon search that eventually tracked down Nemcova in the hospital.After a tearful conversation yesterday morning, they got back to work trying to arrange medical-evacuation flights to get Nemcova to the U.S., or perhaps her native Czech Republic."I'm just happy that she's okay," Olga Nemcova said. "Now we're praying for Simon."They frantically E-mailed pictures of Atlee to hospitals and rescue organizations in Thailand, hoping someone would recognize the tall, handsome Englishman with the piercing blue eyes."Thank God that Petra is alive," Ernest said. "The biggest concern is to find Simon. He vanished without a trace."Nemcova and Atlee began dating about two years ago, becoming a dashing, witty couple in the international fashion scene. They were comfortable on glamorous beaches: He shot all the pictures for her 2005 calendar, many of them as they waded together in the warm waters off the south of France."They were planning on being in Thailand for two or three weeks - just to be there and go scuba diving, relax on the beach, take a break from their schedules," Ernest said.Nemcova booked the trip as a surprise for Atlee, so his family in England had no way to find him yesterday until they got a grim call from Ernest."We know nothing," Atlee's sister Jodi Hansard said from London, where she waited in agony for any word from British officials. "We knew that they were in Thailand, but we didn't even know where they were." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotuchick Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 OMG-horrible, horrible thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sotuchick Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 I see rex x's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tanyalover Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 me 2clickin properties and follwo that does not link direct to the pic either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tanyalover Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 now i see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prplhz Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 Poor girl weighs like 10 pounds it must have taken so much strength and determination to hold on to a tree when the water is rushing by at 300 mph, never mind all of the debris, for 8 hours none the less Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveespa Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 Poor girl weighs like 10 pounds it must have taken so much strength and determination to hold on to a tree when the water is rushing by at 300 mph, never mind all of the debris, for 8 hours none the less u also gotta factor in a broken pelvis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raincry Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 poor girl...at least she survived.....i feel horrible for those people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamsamurai Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 she's beautiful, amazing she survived, she does look toned though. Hope they find at least her b/fs body, thats so horrible though. Having to watch everyone around you just dissapear and only you survive, how do you handle that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therunner Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 what a hottieSo she may be a single lady now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raincry Posted December 28 Report Share Posted December 28 i these pics .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomembername Posted December 28 Author Report Share Posted December 28 what a hottieSo she may be a single lady now. and you may be going to hell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranzwhore Posted December 29 Report Share Posted December 29 i can't even imagine - i feel for all of those who are suffering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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