Triangular in shape. Chock full of nutritious seaweed and tasty egg bits! Been here since the first mass Masto Migration. I’ve been known to paint, sing and do beadwork, but not all at the same time. 😉🎨🎤🧵
Silent prayers for the thousands of souls lost and countless more affected by the horrible earthquakes, tsunami and radiation fiasco that occurred fifteen years ago today in Japan. 🙏😢
My husband and I were there in Kanto when it happened. The quake was so big, trains flipped their tracks and it was impossible for me to take the 2-hr train commute back home. Hubby slept in his car that night because sleeping in the apartment was too scary (debris and broken glass everywhere, power, gas & water/sewer all knocked offline). We were finally able to reunite the following afternoon, but there was no food or water in any of the shops or convenience stores; people were panic buying. After the power came on and we both saw the smoking TEPCO reactor on our TV, petrified, we packed only the essentials and self-evacuated to Osaka. There we heard a report on NHK that the tap water in our city had been irradiated and declared unsafe to drink.
It was a mess. We decided, since we both became displaced due to the quake (I could no longer make the commute and the building Hubby’s school was in was deemed unsafe) we decided to move to Kansai where the quakes were fewer.
Our story had a happier ending than so many. We were lucky. We both could get money from family, my boss was understanding, I got a new job quickly and we saw some fantastic scenery touring Japan while living out of our car.
But so many didn’t make it. Some drowned. Others died from falling debris. Some got sick from living in the shelters and passed away. Many were forced to permanently evacuate due to their town being washed away, or sealed off from their homes due to nuclear contamination. Even today thousands remain displaced, many still in grief from having lost loved ones and their livelihood.
