Saturday, June 4, 2011

Japan Update 6, A Grandmothers Story

Our Crew in Ogatsu
A Bus on the 3rd story in Ogatsu, this bus was on CNN
We travelled to Ogatsu, about an hour and a half from Ishinomaki 2 days ago. This is one small part of the very large town. Most of the buildings in this town were completely destroyed or moved off their foundation and pulled back into the ocean. Many people had time to evacuate in this town, unlike Ishinomaki where 6,000 perished. There was a school here where 135 students were killed. Very sad to see.




Yesterday we shot a video of an elderly woman telling her story of the Tsunami coming in, she survived by escaping to the second story of her neighbors house. Many who tried the same thing perished.




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