The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
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
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2 comments:
Those are a sobering series of photos.
Scary, and truly show the power of Mother Nature- especially the power of water....
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