National Geographic: Tsunami - Killer Wave Page #2
- Year:
- 2005
- 52 min
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in the ocean struggling,
dogs trying to swim ashore.
We saw that.
But you couldn't do anything
about it.
The force of the water was so great,
you couldn't venture into it.
You had no chance.
You felt very helpless and wondered
that you knew.
One photographer watches in horror
as a wave overtakes a dock worker
trapped on a pier.
In the next frame,
taken after the wave has passed,
the worker is nowhere to be seen...
swept away like so many others.
I had gotten up,
gone downstairs to wash up...
Larry Nakagawa was 14 when the wave
struck his home in Hilo.
...and as I was washing my face
and brushing my teeth,
I heard this strange sound of gravel
being thrown on the pavement.
So my brother came out and said
"It looks like
We better get on the tree."
So he hoisted me up
and then my father was hoisted.
He and my father
were on the same branch and,
because of the way the branch was,
he had to hold my father around,
to grab hold of the trunk.
And I think that when the wave came,
he felt that
if he hung onto my father...
the way...
the force of the wave
would push him,
and if he hung on,
So he let go
and he went with the wave.
It was strict horror
to go into the mortuaries.
When they found somebody,
identified somebody
all the bodies were covered
they put a tag on a toe.
But they were covered
with a blanket.
And when you pulled back the blanket
to see if you recognized them,
was terrible... when they died.
They were frightened.
Eyes open, mouth agape.
And just a terror looked-face
on them.
It was very unpleasant to look at.
Twenty-five miles northwest of Hilo,
the little peninsula
called Laupahoehoe
lies exposed to the full fury
of the tsunami.
Students have just arrived
in the Laupahoehoe schoolyard
and are waiting for classes
to start.
Among them are Bunji Fujimoto
and his two brothers.
That day remains vivid
in Bunji's memory.
I could see a wall of water
coming in from out in the ocean.
a cup of coffee.
You just keep pouring
and once it hits the brim,
it spills over,
and that's what happened back here,
up on the wall.
It didn't stop with the wall.
It just came over, spilled over.
And we could see we were in trouble.
We had to run. We started running.
When the water started coming over,
where the school building was.
Fortunately, we made it in time.
didn't make it,
the other students,
mostly students in this area.
My brother was down here
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