Some day, disasters, wars will be gone
I’ve seen and heard all kinds of weather in my many years since the “Depression” of the ’20s and ’30s. I don’t recall so much destruction of all kinds, especially in such a short period of time.
Most compare it to the atomic bomb destruction of Hiroshima in 1945. I flew over it in my Army C-46 about two months after it happened. It was flattened. I still see it.
In April 1946, about 6,000 of us GIs were on a troop ship going home for discharge. We left the Philippines. All kinds of things happened to us, including a tidal wave. We sailed on top of it.
We were to dock for engine repair in Guam. That didn’t happen because the docks were damaged by the tidal wave. We had to bypass Guam to San Francisco.