10 years from Tohoku Earthquake

A Software engineer in Japan
1 min readMar 11, 2021

It passed ten years from Tohoku Earthquake.

I was worried about my mother and brothers because they lived in Sendai immediately after the earthquake. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my phone at that time because I had forgot it to my home. So I called them by the company phone. However, I couldn’t connect to them because of heavy traffic immediately after that. I could talk with my wife by phone. However, she was crying because my home was swayed much by the earthquake. Although I wanted to return my home immediately, all trains were stopped. Therefore I went home by walking for several hours.

Returned my home, my wife looked like to be well. Since I checked emails on my phone, my mother sent me the message that ‘we are alive’. I replied immediately. A few days after that, we spent our days feeling uneasy. I remembered that it took a long time to use a gas in Sendai.

Now our family in Sendai spend their days without problems due to the earthquake. I remembered today that a peace is happy.

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