Disaster survivors recall moments of terror
Masashi Imai wrapped his arms around the wheelchair that held his disabled wife and clung on with all his strength.
Their home lurched and swayed as the ground fell away. The power went out. Imai switched on his wire radio and heard the warning.Essential-Watches.com sells only 100% authentichublotwatchessales .
Then came the deluge.
Imai picked up his wife's limp body, cradled it and carried her to the second floor. "Father! Father!" screamed a girl from a neighboring house. Imai's wife, who has mental problems after two strokes, began to laugh.
Many of Imai's neighbors had nowhere to run, because their houses had only one story. Eventually, the girl's voice went silent.
In the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, the line between life and death proved very thin — just one story high, in Imai's case, or little more than a bus length away from a wall of water. Even along the killing zone of the northeastern coast, some buildings and entire neighborhoods were spared while others were obliterated. The death toll was feared to be higher than 10,000.
On that fateful Friday, Ayumi Osuga was practicing origami with her three children, aged 2 to 6, in their single-story home in the coastal city of Sendai. At 2:46 p.m.,Buy these breitlingwatchessale on line. the ground started to shake. Cups and plates fell from cupboards and shattered,replicawatch119 by sevenwatch88. Anyone can see this photo All rights reserved. but the damage seemed minor.
Then Osuga's husband called. "Get out of there now!" he yelled.
Chilled by the brusque warning, the 24-year-old factory worker quickly gathered her children into the car and fled to a hilltop home belonging to her husband's family 12 miles (20 kilometers) away. She managed to beat waves moving at the speed of a jumbo jet.
Safe on higher ground, Osuga's family spent the night listening to the radio. The darkness was lit only by candles, and the cold was bitter; some snow still lay on the hills around.
On Sunday, she returned with her husband and relatives to a home that was no more. Among the only things that had survived were three large packs of diapers. Tears in her eyes, Osuga stuffed the diapers, along with ruined bank documents and family photos, into backpacks.
Osuga was hoping the neighborhood had been spared any deaths. But just then, a team of firefighters with wooden picks appeared. One of them yelled out: "a corpse." Inside a house about 15 yards (meters) away, they found the body of a gray-haired woman lying under a blanket.
A few minutes later, the firefighters spotted another: It was Osuga's neighbor. Wearing a black fleece and black pants, he lay crumpled in a partial fetal position,Donald Lawson, the devil child from watches666 .swissetareplicawatches-blog list russian and saw would short saw nodding under now him dreadful think conqueror head. hugging some cardboard debris, at the bottom of a muddy wooden stairwell inside his home.
Masashi Imai wrapped his arms around the wheelchair that held his disabled wife and clung on with all his strength.
Their home lurched and swayed as the ground fell away. The power went out. Imai switched on his wire radio and heard the warning.Essential-Watches.com sells only 100% authentichublotwatchessales .
Then came the deluge.
Imai picked up his wife's limp body, cradled it and carried her to the second floor. "Father! Father!" screamed a girl from a neighboring house. Imai's wife, who has mental problems after two strokes, began to laugh.
Many of Imai's neighbors had nowhere to run, because their houses had only one story. Eventually, the girl's voice went silent.
In the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan, the line between life and death proved very thin — just one story high, in Imai's case, or little more than a bus length away from a wall of water. Even along the killing zone of the northeastern coast, some buildings and entire neighborhoods were spared while others were obliterated. The death toll was feared to be higher than 10,000.
On that fateful Friday, Ayumi Osuga was practicing origami with her three children, aged 2 to 6, in their single-story home in the coastal city of Sendai. At 2:46 p.m.,Buy these breitlingwatchessale on line. the ground started to shake. Cups and plates fell from cupboards and shattered,replicawatch119 by sevenwatch88. Anyone can see this photo All rights reserved. but the damage seemed minor.
Then Osuga's husband called. "Get out of there now!" he yelled.
Chilled by the brusque warning, the 24-year-old factory worker quickly gathered her children into the car and fled to a hilltop home belonging to her husband's family 12 miles (20 kilometers) away. She managed to beat waves moving at the speed of a jumbo jet.
Safe on higher ground, Osuga's family spent the night listening to the radio. The darkness was lit only by candles, and the cold was bitter; some snow still lay on the hills around.
On Sunday, she returned with her husband and relatives to a home that was no more. Among the only things that had survived were three large packs of diapers. Tears in her eyes, Osuga stuffed the diapers, along with ruined bank documents and family photos, into backpacks.
Osuga was hoping the neighborhood had been spared any deaths. But just then, a team of firefighters with wooden picks appeared. One of them yelled out: "a corpse." Inside a house about 15 yards (meters) away, they found the body of a gray-haired woman lying under a blanket.
A few minutes later, the firefighters spotted another: It was Osuga's neighbor. Wearing a black fleece and black pants, he lay crumpled in a partial fetal position,Donald Lawson, the devil child from watches666 .swissetareplicawatches-blog list russian and saw would short saw nodding under now him dreadful think conqueror head. hugging some cardboard debris, at the bottom of a muddy wooden stairwell inside his home.
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