JEFF PEARLMAN

JEFF PEARLMAN

Tsunami at its most ferocious

For far too many Americans, if it doesn’t happen here in the United States, it doesn’t happen.

Watch this.

I’ve never seen a video like the one above. It was taken the moment the tsunami swamped Kesennuma, and has been broadcast on Japanese television. For a second, put down your mug; turn off your iPad; step away from the freezer. Just imagine being there. Watching the cars float away. Then the trucks. Then the buildings. Everything you worked for—gone.

Like that.