I Asked, What is the Morning Will Come.WHEN powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan on March 11, and causing a tsunami warning signs at fishing ports on the Pacific Coast, Takako Suzuki civil servants who know exactly where he should go into the shade.
At least, she thought she knew. Suzuki (40) follow the instructions broadcast through loudspeakers and headed to the third floor hall of the people who had set his city, Rikuzentakata, as tsunami evacuation point.
As he ran up the stairs, a tsunami as high as 14 feet hit the enter the building. A rotating black water swallowed the people around him.
"Black water entering the building through the windows with sound thunder. I helplessly tossed to and fro by the water. I do not even remember how I was swept away, "said Suzuki.
He woke up in a group of 12 people. "We were brought into a room where the water continues to rise to about 10 inches from the ceiling," said Suzuki told Reuters journalists are disertainya returned to the scene of the life-death struggle of three weeks earlier.
"I thought, 'if the water rose a little more, I drop it'. However, luckily the water suddenly stopped rising and started to recede, "he said.
The twelve victims who survive, still half-submerged when night falls and the cold wind blowing through the perforated windows, huddled together. All around them lay the bodies of victims were killed.
"The building was moved sideways because it is still filled with water and aftershocks continue to shake the building, causing the debris falling on us. That's scary, "said Suzuki.
"We wondered if morning would never come, if help will ever come," he said.
The temptation for those that ended nearly 24 hours later when Suzuki and 10 other people were taken from the building by a rescue helicopter operated Self-Defense Forces, the Japanese military. One of the twelve men, elderly men, died during the night.
Suzuki estimates that his group, the 11 people who survived it, were among 60 people who took refuge in the hall of the people. Japanese magazine, AERA, reported 100 people sought refuge there. "It's a mystery to me how I am still alive," he said.
"I thought I would die, but I am a mother of three children so I held back only by thinking that I want to see my children again," said Suzuki, his voice suddenly quiet break.
Rikuzentakata, one of the worst-hit city of more than 250 kilometers along the coastline affected Japan, counted 1066 dead and 2041 missing than 23,000 residents.
Suzuki family home situated on a height and is not affected by the tsunami which flattened her workplace. Suzuki joined with his colleagues and volunteers to help 160 people in shelters. "My life has been given back to me," he said. (Reuters / DI)
At least, she thought she knew. Suzuki (40) follow the instructions broadcast through loudspeakers and headed to the third floor hall of the people who had set his city, Rikuzentakata, as tsunami evacuation point.
As he ran up the stairs, a tsunami as high as 14 feet hit the enter the building. A rotating black water swallowed the people around him.
"Black water entering the building through the windows with sound thunder. I helplessly tossed to and fro by the water. I do not even remember how I was swept away, "said Suzuki.
He woke up in a group of 12 people. "We were brought into a room where the water continues to rise to about 10 inches from the ceiling," said Suzuki told Reuters journalists are disertainya returned to the scene of the life-death struggle of three weeks earlier.
"I thought, 'if the water rose a little more, I drop it'. However, luckily the water suddenly stopped rising and started to recede, "he said.
The twelve victims who survive, still half-submerged when night falls and the cold wind blowing through the perforated windows, huddled together. All around them lay the bodies of victims were killed.
"The building was moved sideways because it is still filled with water and aftershocks continue to shake the building, causing the debris falling on us. That's scary, "said Suzuki.
"We wondered if morning would never come, if help will ever come," he said.
The temptation for those that ended nearly 24 hours later when Suzuki and 10 other people were taken from the building by a rescue helicopter operated Self-Defense Forces, the Japanese military. One of the twelve men, elderly men, died during the night.
Suzuki estimates that his group, the 11 people who survived it, were among 60 people who took refuge in the hall of the people. Japanese magazine, AERA, reported 100 people sought refuge there. "It's a mystery to me how I am still alive," he said.
"I thought I would die, but I am a mother of three children so I held back only by thinking that I want to see my children again," said Suzuki, his voice suddenly quiet break.
Rikuzentakata, one of the worst-hit city of more than 250 kilometers along the coastline affected Japan, counted 1066 dead and 2041 missing than 23,000 residents.
Suzuki family home situated on a height and is not affected by the tsunami which flattened her workplace. Suzuki joined with his colleagues and volunteers to help 160 people in shelters. "My life has been given back to me," he said. (Reuters / DI)
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