A story of Mizuhama

Mizuhama is the town where I went to serve dishes.
There is a shelter which used to be a kindergarten and about 100 people live there.

Soon after the earthquake in 11th March, the energy supply was shut down so
they couldn't listen even tsunami alert. Of course mobile phone didn't work.
They decided to evacuate to the higher place.
Some could survive and others were swept to their death by tsunami.
360 people lived in Mizuhama, 3 people are dead and 6 people are still missing.

They were isolated almost one week because the only tunnel to go to the center of city was not
able to go through.
Then they had to cope with the situation without energy, gas and water supplies.


Mizuhama experienced many tsunamis.
In 1960, there was huge tsunami caused by a big earthquake in Chili.
Some people still remember the incident.
They made huge tsunami protecters on that time but massive tsunami of 3.11
wiped out even them. They were useless.