{"id":3178,"date":"2013-03-11T06:09:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=3178"},"modified":"2013-03-11T06:09:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T12:09:56","slug":"two-years-since-the-tohoku-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2013\/03\/11\/two-years-since-the-tohoku-earthquake\/","title":{"rendered":"Two years since the Tohoku Earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marks two years since the Great East Japan Earthquake. I\u2019ll never forget that day. I was shopping for a snack just before work when the building started shaking like crazy. We all rushed out. My work got canceled, but all the trains stopped, so I spent the night in the office with two other co-workers. On my co-worker\u2019s laptop, we watched a tsunami wash away a town. I cried and cried.
\n\"Kamaishi-Beach-Tsunami-2011\"<\/a>
\n I felt sick and pained in the depths of my soul. I hadn\u2019t known the horror of a tsunami until then. I thought it was like one of those waves a surfer rode on the beach, except really tall. NO. It rolled over a city, picked up everything, and sucked it back out to sea. It stole people\u2019s lives. It stole their homes. It stole their future.<\/p>\n

And it wrecked the nuclear power plant and spilled radioactive material everywhere.<\/p>\n

I was so scared, so when my friend\/MMA photographer Dan said, \u201cI\u2019m going to Nagyoa for a while, wanna come?\u201d I said, \u201cYes. I\u2019ll be at Shinagawa in an hour.\u201d Grabbed clothes, my laptop, money and was soon speeding away from Tokyo. Thank you to Dan\u2019s friends for letting me crash at their place along with 9 or 10 other people for a week.
\n\"the<\/a><\/p>\n

A week later, after we were sure the power plants weren\u2019t going to explode any worse, I went home. Half my friends and co-workers had left the country.<\/p>\n

Even now, people in disaster areas are still living in temporary houses. Even now charity collections are going on, and much of the money hasn\u2019t been distributed. Families have sued Tokyo Electric for their negligence to prepare adequate safety precautions. But how can it pay thousands of people?!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s crazy. Energy conservation. People still homeless and jobless and missing. They must have passed away after two years, their bodies washed out to sea. It\u2019s so tragic.<\/p>\n

Last year in October, my team Groundslam organized a volunteer trip to Kamaishi to distribute supplies and do a grappling tournament.
\n\"mogi's<\/a> <\/p>\n

We built a park and helped clean rubble. I felt happy that I could do something with my own hands.
\n\"kamaishi<\/a> <\/p>\n

\"kamaishi<\/a>
\nI\u2019ll never forget March 11th. The \u201celeventh\u201d seems to be a super unlucky day. It was a tragic day for the US (September 11th) and also Japan. What a coincidence. <\/p>\n

There are still big worries about how the radiation will effect us all. We\u2019re all eating radioactive fish and plants, etc etc. The government keeps lying about how certain degrees are safe, but you know what? Radioactivity is radioactivity. But I\u2019m not leaving Japan because I love it here, and it\u2019s my home.<\/p>\n

Ever since last week I\u2019ve been thinking about this. I wish I could do more to help my adopted country. Ganbarou, Nippon!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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