a single thing you do
Lately I've been thinking, which always seems to end badly. Now that some of the dust has settled, I have been able to read some of the news stories about the extent of the damage in Japan, and of course it got me thinking.
One man in Kasennuma, a seaside town completely decimated by the wave, a man said that they were given warning to evacuate, although they ended up having less than an hour to escape. He and many others took a route through a tunnel, but the traffic was unmoving. The man knew he wouldn't make it if he continued that way and was lucky to find somewhere to get off and get to higher ground. He watched the wave sweep into the tunnel where hundreds of cars were gridlocked.
Imagine that, for a second. Gridlocked into a sure death. You can't imagine it, can you?
My freshman year of high school, one of Sensei's first culture days was a dark lesson, in retrospect. He gave us several disastor situations for Tokyo and we had to come up with some kind of solution. Most of them were comical,bit then he asked us seriously, "What would you do?" Someone rewplied, "What can you do?" And all he had to say to that was "Exactly."
Here in America, there is always somewhere to escape. Never take the vastness of this country for granted.
One man in Kasennuma, a seaside town completely decimated by the wave, a man said that they were given warning to evacuate, although they ended up having less than an hour to escape. He and many others took a route through a tunnel, but the traffic was unmoving. The man knew he wouldn't make it if he continued that way and was lucky to find somewhere to get off and get to higher ground. He watched the wave sweep into the tunnel where hundreds of cars were gridlocked.
Imagine that, for a second. Gridlocked into a sure death. You can't imagine it, can you?
My freshman year of high school, one of Sensei's first culture days was a dark lesson, in retrospect. He gave us several disastor situations for Tokyo and we had to come up with some kind of solution. Most of them were comical,bit then he asked us seriously, "What would you do?" Someone rewplied, "What can you do?" And all he had to say to that was "Exactly."
Here in America, there is always somewhere to escape. Never take the vastness of this country for granted.