Four months later, it's no longer wet, but it still stinks and attracts flies and needs to be removed before sanitizing and reinhabiting buildings like this house. And once you've gotten if off the floor, you need to get the floor off to get the hedoro (sludge) out from underneath the building. Then let it dry, and disinfect, and replace the floor.
Carol and Laura went to Ishinomaki last week to help with the hedoro. Since it's so nasty, you have to remove it from yards and even pull down chunks of it from branches of trees to get rid of the stench and begin to have a normal neighbourhood again. The hedoro was bagged in the bags you see here, and is then trucked away by the city.
You might notice a little superficial earthquake damage to the church where Carol and Laura stayed. Last Sunday's aftershock was 7.1, which seems pretty minor after March 11.
