creating in some cases complete devastation. this is sendai. this is sendai after. this is the eastern part towards the coastline. right on the beaches. you go further inland and some areas are virtually untouched. the areas that got hit near the coastline completely wiped out. here is the airport south of sendai, less than a kilometer away from the coastline. before the tsunami and after. a lot of these low lying areas are still draining because they basically have big puddles including this farm land in notori. that farm land being flooded with saltwater and likely other contaminants.