In the tsunami zone

Here you can see that the first floor of this building was completely devastated.

Just a bit nearer the ocean, I came to two more houses that had had the first floor destroyed. However, as you can tell from the car, some one was doing something in the left hand home.

This shows the power of the tsunami. This metal pole was bent over horizontal to the ground.

Getting still closer to the ocean, I found a house where the damage was not just to the inside of the ground floor but also to the roof.

The entire contents of the first floor of this grade school was violently washed away. Hopefully, the students and staff made it to the roof on time.

It appears that the building over this statue was washed away, but it and some of the stelae remained. Someone has done some repair work, putting some supports under the remains of the concrete floor, for example.