Sunday, March 13, 2011

And they were swept off their feet...

The massive earthquake and the tsunami in Japan was scary and left many destitute and helpless. The scenes on TV are painful (itaitashii...) to watch. Why do so many innocent people have to perish? The fury of mother nature that leaves us helpless despite the best of our technologies that we love to boast about. It is a humbling experience, sad and my heart goes out to those who lost their loved ones and all their belongings. How lucky some of us are to be alive and safe!
Images of a man who ran holding hands with his wife and kid, but the wife and kid having been washed away before they almost made it to safe territory, the crisp images of houses and trucks floating like toys, the water flooding in as people are escaping, and a lone man standing on the roof top of a building caught on camera but the cameraman was too busy to notice him during the shooting of the raging waters... these images leave footprints on our mind long after the tsunami waters recede washing away all traces of existence in some places. Why do film directors spend or rather waste millions shooting gruesome horror scenes when nature gives us aplenty and we have the technology to shoot such horrors from such close quarters in such vivid detail?

One TV channel called up a person who escaped to her sisters place, encouraging her to hold on till help arrived in earnest on the morrow while they were struggling without food, water, and with overflowing temporary toilets...

Also on TV were shown long queues of people waiting outside public telephone booths to call their near and dear ones, a scene that is rare in modern Japan...

Praying things get better soon although things will never be the same for a lot of people as power cuts continue and earthquake continues to rock northern Japan resulting in the first ever nuclear leak here...

1 comment:

  1. Yes, a terrible tragedy indeed. Perhaps the wheels of time are churning... and hence the manifold increases in natural calamities: earthquakes, floods and tsunami. Good to know you are safe...

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