Disabled Japanese struggle in disaster aftermath
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OTSUCHI — Sachiko Miura had no warning before a huge tsunami slammed into the small Japanese fishing village where she has lived all her life — because she could not hear the sirens.
The first the hearing-impaired 66-year-old knew of the impending disaster was when she saw the massive wave bearing down on her small wooden house, less than an hour after the worst earthquake in Japan’s recorded history.
She spent an entire night cowering alone and terrified on the second floor of her home in the fishing village of Otsuchi on Japan’s northeast coast.
“In no time at all the water was up around my waist, and I was trembling with cold and fear,” a tearful Miura recalled..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110412com7.html
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