"you land badly, but you crash standing / you land badly, but you crash"

[larryhammer]

Photos from during and just after the 11 March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and of the same locations taken during the last two months -- for most, click to time travel. There is some overlap between the two sets, but at least half of each are not in the other.

Set 1 from In Focus.

Set 2 from The Big Picture.

Also of note: photos from Japan's 80,000 nuclear refugees of Fukushima Prefecture, most of them living in temporary shelters just outside the 20-km radiation exclusion zone. Which, yes, still exists.

ETA: A one year anniversary set from In Focus and another (warning: contains random samba dancer in the snow) from The Big Picture.

---L.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

The amount of cleanup is just mind boggling. I do wish there was a way to process all that detritus to build domiciles for those people living in the cardboard boxes.