Over the years, it has become a bit of an obsession with me to watch footage of the Tsunami that hit Japan back in 2011. Especially now, with the new earthquake that just Japan around the first of this month.
There always seems to be a new video that has been released covering that 2011 tragedy which hit many of the eastern coastal towns.
This obsession is due, in part, to my fascination with the power of water. The ocean is both beautiful and terrifying. It cannot be underestimated.
And it causes me to think that the Japanese people were just unprepared for what took place. They trusted that the tsunami walls were built high enough to hold back the surge.
Yet, their entire lives were devastated in an instant. Lives that they had built, over many generations, were wiped out in just a few minutes.
So, I wonder how we, in the United States, would react if such a tragedy struck here?
How would we, who live right smack dab in the Midwest (for example), face such a disaster? We who live in the small towns and farm communities that generally don’t face any serious threat of earthquakes, floods, hurricane’s, Tsunami’s, or comet strikes.
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