Morning after Sendai Tsunami in Japan
It happened last night PST. I heard on the radio, Pacifica had a evacuation for the other end of same tsunami wave reaching pacific coast at 8:08am. There was an 8.8 earthquake followed by 7.9 aftershock then the tsunami arrived at Sendai was half a mile, it swept Sendai all in one minute, super shallow but wide. It wasn’t the oceanic water that is so difficult, it was all the sand and mud and human clutter that crushed everything and everyone that the force came across. The tsunami leveled this city. People had 20 minutes to evacuate. All the electricity was shut off.
I hope the elderly and the sick and young were taken cared of along with lone recluse. Twenty minutes was enough time to drive up to evacuation sites up the mountain and if you didn’t have access to a car or if you tried to drive home to reach your loves to pick them up, it is difficult to say in such instances. Or if you were injured from the earthquake and had 20 minutes to run after, it is hard to say whether or not 20 minutes were enough time to do so. There were scenes of cars trying to outrun the tsunami and did not win.
What if you had elderly at home and infants?
Who can you carry and run? Who can you abandon?
And do you choose to stay because running and being the lone survivor is just too hard to live on after?
I don’t know, it’s a lot to process in zero flight second like that.
So sad,
I am so sad.
All day long I clinched my palms together trying to hold it all in, trying to keep it all contained. There was nothing better to do than to just pray for the rest of the day.
