Sister cities after the tsunami
The March tsunami destroyed the Japanese town of Otsuchi, but not its bond to the town of Fort Bragg, CA, which is determined to help save its sister. Bob Simon reports.
The March tsunami destroyed the Japanese town of Otsuchi, but not its bond to the town of Fort Bragg, CA, which is determined to help save its sister. Bob Simon reports.
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Hugs from Me. I'm in Kansas City Missouri...USA and I'm so sorry to the people of Japan and this town.
He is a beautiful man with a beautiful spirit. I wish i knew him personally and could call him friend.
This is a great story
sorry for the lovely people and they life nothing left god bless 😭
What a lovely man, and extremely fortunate to have been able to evacuate from the tsunami that literally decimated the population! That entire community was wiped from the face of the earth, a situation repeated in countless coastal communities. At its highest point, the tsunami reached 128 feet and it inundated to a distance of 6 miles inland and it first made landfall about 12 minutes after the Magnitude 9 earthquake had struck! These truly horrific figures illustrate the difficulties for coastal communities to implement effective early warning and mass evacuation systems! Many people ignored the tsunami warnings, perhaps due to complacency, or believing that the sea wall defences would protect them, or because previous tsunami warnings had been false alarms! Irrespective of the reason, they remained in place to be inundated and killed in their thousands, as did those that delayed their evacuation. Because no government departments had ever considered that such a powerful tsunami could ever occur, tsunami safety points were located too close to the sea and at too low level and they were crowded when they too were inundated and the evacuees killed, including entire families. It took this catastrophic tsunami to capture the attention of the government and to bring the subject of coastal communities vulnerability to the fore. Unfortunately, the only certainty is that there will be further earthquakes and tsunamis in the future. Some coastal communities are rebuilding at the same devastated locations, but raising their entire ground level by 10 metres, whilst another has decided to level a nearby mountain and to rebuild everything there! Others are constructing 45 metre high sea walls, some may adopt variations of each method in the hope that this time, it'll work!
I hope things are better for them now, a moving video, bless em :)
That was beautiful!
Beautiful humble people.
Grande história! ❤💙💖🙏🙏🙏
I love the mocking lilt of the interviewer
🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹
So sorry that the evil in this world did what they did to those people. All to keep the US dollar alive. What a shame.
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Trust me the only place in California like Japan is big sur,good luck with that.