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Spotlight: the Great Flood pt. 3
4 years ago
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“Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ ✐ ♡ ✎ ♡ *DONG - GONG - DONG - GONG*
The sound of the flood bell rang out loud and clear, touching the ears of all of the residents of the City of Calico. A tsunami was on its way, which meant that the townsfolk needed to head to the flood towers where they would be elevated high enough to be out of the range of the ocean's rampage.
When the bell tolls, the locals know that they have roughly five minutes to drop what they are doing and run to safety. By the time the actual tsunami hits, the citizens have reached safety, as the wave is noticed by the watchman while it is still out at sea. It can take as much fifteen minutes from the time the bell first rings to the the moment when the wave hits the shore. That was how the procedure worked.
Unfortunately, on this day, the alarm was ten minutes too late.
The sound of the flood bell rang out loud and clear, touching the ears of all of the residents of the City of Calico. A tsunami was on its way, which meant that the townsfolk needed to head to the flood towers where they would be elevated high enough to be out of the range of the ocean's rampage.
When the bell tolls, the locals know that they have roughly five minutes to drop what they are doing and run to safety. By the time the actual tsunami hits, the citizens have reached safety, as the wave is noticed by the watchman while it is still out at sea. It can take as much fifteen minutes from the time the bell first rings to the the moment when the wave hits the shore. That was how the procedure worked.
Unfortunately, on this day, the alarm was ten minutes too late.
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I'm reminded of now such towers built in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan as countermeasures from a repeat of the March 11 Earthquake.