so coincidence, love, disaster, there is no fairness about these things. they just are. zac brown had n turned 23 in 20. h had just picked up a degree of history in indiana. no idea what to do next. he saw an offer for a job in japan. a two-year stint teaching english to elementary school kids. no japanese language skills required. why japan of all places? i don t think there is any rhyme or reason to it. ihe think it was just offered t me and i jumped on it. thena town they sent him to town is a long, long way from nashville. nashville, indiana. on sundays he skiepd with his parents, john and terry. parents, john and terry. john is a terry is a school guidance counselor. how did he seem to be doing?
but we just it was even close to the coast. it was closer to the coast. wondering what he might find. john whitcomb: yes. terry whitcomb: and he was over there by himself, you know? and what would he do if he didn t find her? you know, it was just it was all those things. keith morrison (voiceover): zach hopped in his car and began the 8 mile drive down the winding road from kuji to newda. as i come down the hill, i start noticing people are walking on the side of the road. no cars but they re they re just walking. whole families walking. and i just thinking to myself, that s odd, you know? that s strange. as i got closer, i could see what looked like to be a house on its side just in the middle of the road. i was really confused because where were the tsunami walls? keith morrison (voiceover): police had set up a barricade.
in nashville, indiana, john and terry whitcomb had barely had a sip of their morning tea when the news jolted them awake. this is a very powerful earthquake. the images are stunning out of japan. an epic earthquake hit northern japan, 9.0, near the top end of the richter scale. then a huge tsunami crashing up thcoast. it was like watching a disaster movi this one horribly real. and john and terry s son zach was now right in the middle of it. what did you think? unreal. this can t be happening. are you sure it s where zach is? are you sure it s in the same region? we were looking at maps, and everything was pointing to, yeah, it s exactly where zach is. we just prayed. enormous waves you see here were hitting noda and kuji, the towns where zach and georgia were teaching.
march 11th, 2011. friday morning, march 11, 2011. in nashville, indiana, john and terry whitcomb had barely had a sip of their morning tea when the news jolted them awake. this is a very powerful earthquake. the images are stunning out of japan. an epic earthquake hit northern japan, 9.0, near the top end of the richter scale. then a huge tsunami crashing up the coast. it was like watching a disaster movie, this one horribly real. and john and terry s son zach was now right in the middle of it. what did you think? unreal. this can t be happening. are you sure it s where zach is? are you sure it s in the same region? we were looking at maps, and everything was pointing to, yeah, it s exactly where zach is. we just prayed. enormous waves you see here
2011. in nashville, indiana, john and terry whitcomb had barely had a sip of their morning tea when the news jolted them awake. this is a very powerful earthquake. the images are stunning out of japan. an epic earthquake hit northern japan, 9.0, near the top end of the richter scale. then a huge tsunami crashing up the coast. it was like watching a disaster movie, this one horribly real. and john and terry s son zach was now right in the middle of it. what did you see? unreal. this can t be happening. are you sure it s where zach is? are you sure it s in the same region? we were looking at maps, and everything was pointing to, yeah, it s exactly where zach is. we just prayed. enormous waves you see here were hitting noda and kuj gee,