It's hard to think about anything but Japan and the struggle that is taking place there. I keep trying to imagine what it's like to be living out in the cold, in front of your destroyed house, scrounging for water, building fires to cook your food, wondering what the future will bring. The Japanese are known to be resilient but what must it be like to not know what has happened to your relatives and neighbors, to ponder how many people are beneath the wreckage?
As we were coming into Seattle on the Winslow ferry the other day, to take my granddaughters and daughter-in-law to the airport, I noticed the boats along the waterfront. If a tsunami as large as the one that hit Japan had hit the Seattle waterfront, those boats would have been resting on top of the Alaskan Way viaduct. All of the tourists on Alaskan Way would have been picked up by the water, carried inland or back out to sea. I can't shake the vision of the hundreds of small, white cars being carried by the power of that huge wave, the houses being swept along--were there people in the houses? Did they survive?
And now there is all the speculation about the radiation from the nuclear plants, there was even a run on iodine pills here. Can you trust what is being said about no danger to us on the West Coast or do you believe those that are saying otherwise? All through the 50s we were taught to duck and cover, we were so afraid a bomb would be dropped on or near us. Who would have predicted nuclear power and earthquakes as a scenario for a new radiation fear?
My heart is heavy for the people of Japan. I will be contributing money through World Vision as my very small way of helping but it won't seem like enough.
http://www.worldvision.org/#/home/main/quake-tsunami-devastate-japan-1-1360
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