Isn't this the most poignant picture? The fishermen in this village painted the word HELP and the kanji characters for help on the parking lot asphalt. There was a woman in labor who needed to be lifted by helicopter to a hospital.
We talked to the father of the baby boy and he said that mother and baby were doing fine. She was airlifted to a hospital but didn't give birth immediately. Can you imagine how frightening this must have been?
The little fishing villages are set around a peninsula in the beautiful scenery with mountains very close to the shore. They built homes on the flat land by the water.
A crack from the earthquake.
Here are the fishermen accepting the 6 boxes of oranges that we brought to them. They have no means of getting fresh fruits and vegetables. They were delighted.
The man with the black hair is the father of the "tsunami baby".
Our van was loaded! 8 people and their luggage and the sewing machine that Sister Donahoe bought in the store where we stopped to buy the oranges!
Getting 6 boxes of oranges in was quite a feat - and we had things under our feet for a while!
Looking out at the landscape - what a mess! And the cars and lots of the metal things have been removed!
The houses that are left are uninhabitable for the most part unless they can live on the 2nd story.
Standing on a foundation.
These piles are not just on the surface, they are deep.
Look at the buckling of the cement.
See the frying pan and broken dishes. People's possessions everywhere!
A sewing machine that will never sew again. I wonder who it belonged to.
This rock was put in place after a much earlier tsunami warning people not to build after this point. Unfortunately, the warning was not heeded.
Metal was twisted like pipe cleaners.
Wondering who these shoes belonged to and hoping that they are ok.
Many of the homes will never be rebuilt because the land will be condemned.
And a pair of skis that stayed together.
These pictures will give a glimpse of what we saw. It is sad to think of the future for many of the people whose lives were so disrupted. Many are still in evacuation centers but temporary housing was going up in several places. This was painted on one of the huge ships and says "Gambatte" meaning "Hang in there"! It has become a catch phrase for the area.
We talked to the father of the baby boy and he said that mother and baby were doing fine. She was airlifted to a hospital but didn't give birth immediately. Can you imagine how frightening this must have been?
The little fishing villages are set around a peninsula in the beautiful scenery with mountains very close to the shore. They built homes on the flat land by the water.
A crack from the earthquake.
Here are the fishermen accepting the 6 boxes of oranges that we brought to them. They have no means of getting fresh fruits and vegetables. They were delighted.
The man with the black hair is the father of the "tsunami baby".
Our van was loaded! 8 people and their luggage and the sewing machine that Sister Donahoe bought in the store where we stopped to buy the oranges!
Getting 6 boxes of oranges in was quite a feat - and we had things under our feet for a while!
Looking out at the landscape - what a mess! And the cars and lots of the metal things have been removed! 
The houses that are left are uninhabitable for the most part unless they can live on the 2nd story.
Standing on a foundation.
These piles are not just on the surface, they are deep.
Look at the buckling of the cement.
See the frying pan and broken dishes. People's possessions everywhere!
A sewing machine that will never sew again. I wonder who it belonged to.
This rock was put in place after a much earlier tsunami warning people not to build after this point. Unfortunately, the warning was not heeded.
Metal was twisted like pipe cleaners.
Wondering who these shoes belonged to and hoping that they are ok.
Many of the homes will never be rebuilt because the land will be condemned.
And a pair of skis that stayed together.
These pictures will give a glimpse of what we saw. It is sad to think of the future for many of the people whose lives were so disrupted. Many are still in evacuation centers but temporary housing was going up in several places. This was painted on one of the huge ships and says "Gambatte" meaning "Hang in there"! It has become a catch phrase for the area.
2 comments:
What an amazing experience to be there, thank you for sharing it with us...I have a new appreciation for all my blessings, oranges have taken on a whole new meaning.
Thanks for sharing your pictures, Mom! It's sad to see such destruction, but I'm sure pictures don't even portray the whole reality of the situation. What an experience to be there. We really do need to count our blessings! Thanks for the reminder!
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