Tuesday, April 5, 2011

An amazing escape!


These three photographs have emerged from Minamisanriku, one of the towns most severely affected by the tsunami that struck Japan a few weeks ago. In the first picture, you see some human figures desperately clinging to an antenna tower, and the top of a flight of metal stairs.




The second picture shows the water beginning to recede. You can see that the antenna tower and stairs are actually at the top of a building.




In the final picture, the water has gone down, showing that it was a three-story building (now almost totally destroyed) that had been completely submerged by the tsunami.




How much energy and strength - not to mention desperation! - did it take for those people to climb so high, so quickly, and hold on against that rush of water? The whole building must have been vibrating like a tuning fork! Everyone else in it died . . .





Peter

2 comments:

LL said...

Those are a sobering series of photos.

Old NFO said...

Scary, and truly show the power of Mother Nature- especially the power of water....