reasons was the total silence. usually when you say to somebody it's so quiet here, there will be background noise or white noise, birds chirping in the distance. but literally here it was like being in a soundproof box. >> you describe it like a ghost town. there's a picture of the chairs in the street. nobody is sitting there. what was going on? was that essentially people who were there and just evacuated and left that ghost town feeling? >> i remember seeing that from a distance and said are those chairs in the middle of the street? kind of drew me toward it and kept walking to it because the way they are positioned is like a picnic or something and suddenly one minute you are having a picnic and next you disappeared and that's very common throughout there. you had these little vignettes of people going about their daily lives, and then suddenly