''I had an imagine of my father walking out of the hotel, there were puddles everywhere, he had his trousers rolled up.''

Title: Tsunami: the terrible toll

Author: Sonali Deraniyagala

Narrator, author... first person

Father had rolled up his trousers because of the puddles. Note, she is imagining her father rolling up his trousers, her mother and father are still in the hotel.

These thoughts cross the author's mind because she and her husband had left her paretns behind in the hotel when the tsunami hit.... they just ran with their children.