Japan: 30 pictures of boats and ships swept ashore by the tsunami

[L. Coyote]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8390718/Japan-earthquake-30-pictures-of-boats-and-ships-swept-ashore-by-the-tsunami.html

[madmax]

1. I can't even begin to imagine

how they'll go about cleaning up a mess that huge!

K&R

[Poll_Blind]

2. Just that tiny aspect of the destruction- just that tiny bit- is mind-boggling to me.

Thank you for posting this!

PB

[murielm99]

3. Looking at those pictures, I can't help but think that

if people were on those boats at the time of the tsunami, they were swept away and drowned.

There is no part of this that is not tragic.

[reggie the dog]

4. those in the in tact boats may well have been rescued

had they managed to stay on the boat and not be drowned inside it.

[L. Coyote]

5. Boats at least float with the water, so the occupants had a better chance.

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. When you see boats resting on TOP of two-story buildings...

(like in picture #16), you get a human-sized picture of just how enormous the incoming surge had to have been. And then you see the picture of a boat resting 2km INLAND... Horrific.