Visitors to this blog will recognize the harbour to the left from an earlier post of mine. To the far right, near the bottom, is a town that was harder hit.
These GPS coordinates 39°19'19.40"N 141°54'56.47"E is for a town called Hakozaki, where only five weeks ago it was more than a viable town, it had........... a lot more that the 250 residents that lived to walk away. Now its down to 50 people living in four houses. ......... Not homes, a home would mean that it's a livable place, to raise a family.
A resident of Vancouver, "fled" the most livable city in the world four days ago, and went to her parents home on the outskirts of Kamaishi, where their house was just high enough so that the Tsunami wasn't able to reach them.
The Tsunami reached far enough though, to ensure that they have no water, no electricity, no heat of any kind, and yet here is what Masumi had to say in her email today:
"Day before yesterday, I visited the town called `Hakozaki, Kamaishi`.
You can see most of the houses are gone. (Masumi's photos below)
The road was broken so a couple of hundred people were moved to
shelter by helicopters.
But still around 50 people are in 4 houses.
Most of the people lost everything.
We visited one of those houses.
This house is built on the hill more than 100 years ago and 14 people
are in one house. No electric and water. So they use water from the
mountain.
There are quite a lot of places like this.
We brought vegetables, batteries, soap etc in more than 10 big boxes,
which were donated by a lot of people and company from various places
of Japan.
We will visit again next week."
Copy 39°19'19.40"N 141°54'56.47"E into Google Earth
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I am so sorry for the Japanese people. What a terrible tragedy. All I could do for them, was to donate some money. I still feel that's not enough.
Are the Japanese people getting food and safe drinking water? I understand, their food crops and drinking water are contaminated. Is Canada donating food and water?
We are doing a garage sale, with a bake sale, and later, a craft and bake sale. All proceeds to go to Japan. It's a drop in the bucket. But if everyone does a bit, it all helps.
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