[Straight Vermonter]

Kurihara is much farther in land than Sendai. I’m not sure why they would have gotten hit so hard.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Kurihara++japan&aq=&sll=38.254628,140.94326&sspn=0.132913,0.130806&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Kurihara,+Miyagi+Prefecture,+Japan&ll=38.380422,140.874939&spn=1.061438,1.046448&t=h&z=9

[silverleaf]

was the city located along a river...I think the helo crew filming said the waves that inundated Sendai traveled almost 2 miles upriver amd then spead out from there

incredible film