For 36 hours after the earthquake and tsunami(海啸) that severely destroyed the east coast of Japan on Friday,I was unable to get any word from my relatives who take care of and live in our family’s Buddhist temple in Iwaki City,south of Sendai,the biggest city near the center of the earthquake.I wondered if they were too lucky and smart.
I wanted to know,and I did not want to know.I dipped into the world of the Internet,with its videos of water flooding the farmland and heavily damaged ferrise,and then quickly backed out because the images of the coastline do not match the Japan that I know.
All this has happened even though Japan is arguably better prepared than any other country when it comes to earthquakes and other natural disasters.
When I was a child growing up in California,my Japanese mother would ask me,“How do you know a tsunami is coming?”“When the ocean starts to disappear,”I would say.“And then what do you do?”“Drop everything and run up a hill.”
The people of Fukushima would have been taught this as well,and yet most would have had only 15 minutes to understand they
had just experienced an earthquake,to notice the sea was retreating,and escape.
After 36 hours,I get through to my family at the temple in Iwaki.My relatives are unharmed,but there are new fears of a catastrophic meltdown(熔毁)at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant,just 30 miles away.One of the family cars is full of gas,and they convince me that they can escape at a moment’s notice.Fuel is in short supply,so in this,they are lucky.
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