i said my fiance is a new zealand citizen and we want to bring her along. he said, i m really sorry, we can only offer this to u.s. citizens at this stage and, again, i can t leave her behind. they were 200 miles from fukushima. they began to feel the danger from the radiation where they were was subsiding so they stayed, even helped with the cleanup. and then about a month later, funny how these things go, zach and georgia got another shock. another one of those life changing developments. zach told his parents about it during one of their regular sunday phone calls. and he said, have you checked your e-mail yet? and i said, no. he said, why don t you guys look at your e-mail together. and so i said, oh, zach, what now? after all the worry and dread
want to spend the rest of my life with you, i don t care if it s in japan, or new zealand, or if we re in siberia, i want to spend the rest of my life with you. will you marry me? and i said, yes, of course. i had to put him out of his misery. he looked like he was going to collapse. so i was engaged. we didn t know what we were going to do from there, we didn t know where we were going to go, we knew we were having a baby and we got married. you got married twice? yeah, we did. yes, two weddings. the first in indiana. the second one in new zealand. and there was a special guest at that one. two-month old sebastian. getting some good distance. after promising his mother it was never going to happen, sure enough, zach and his family now live in new zealand. he works for the government. georgia at a recruitment agency
hell and high water. but perhaps the biggest problem was the japanese army blocking the road. coming up, was time running out for georgia? had zach lost the love of his life? that feeling that she is not all right, it began growing as each minute went by. when dateline continues. they say you re supposed to deny your cravings. you know what i do instead? i snack on blue diamond almonds. wasabi & soy sauce?! mmm! don t deny your cravings. eat em!
everything just began to shake. iin was in an office chair with wheels. so immediately as it started the chairs just kind of began to slide. things began falling off the shelves. zack had never been in an earthquake, but his co-workers knew this one was big. worried that the building might collapse they ran downstairs and out to the parking lot. but soon they were told it was okay. it was over. but when the shaking stopped, the disaster was just beginning. there was a monster out there over the horizon called fate, and it was coming very fast. almost as soon as zack got back to his desk warning sirens went off and even zack knew what that meant. and if the tsunami was heading to his town of kuji two miles inland, what was it going to do on the coast in noda where georgia was?na
probably didn t sleep much that night? no. the aftershocks went on all night. so did tsunami warnings. so you re thinking, is there going to be another tsunami coming through? you know, it s so, no, i didn t sleep. by 5:30 a.m., he knew what he had to do. he left a note on his apartment door just in case georgia made it there. i said, georgia, i m coming to look for you. if for some reason you make it into kuji, stay here. if i haven t found you by sundown, i m coming back here. so know i m coming back. then he got in his car again and headed towards the coast. and i just decided, literally come hell or high water, i was getting into that damn down. but how? he would certainly be facing