Into every tragedy a few nuggets of positive news often appear. Tsuna Kimura is one of those nuggets from last week's earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan.
CNN found the 83-year-old woman in a shelter in the town of Hachinohe, one of the coastal cities partially swept away by the tsunami that followed the 9.0 earthquake.
The life-long rice farmer lived alone in a house, now flooded, when the earthquake and tsunami hit. She told CNN:
“After the tsunami warning, I got on my bicycle, by myself, and rode away.”
Good for her and her will to survive.
Bicycles are playing a big role in other people's response to the disaster.
Many in Tokyo lined up outside of stores to buy bicycles the day of the earthquake, and Byron Kidd atTokyoBikes Twitter account and blog frequently reports that more people are using bicycles to commute and run errands in Tokyo because of traffic jams, closed subways and gasoline shortages.
But this is the first news I heard that a person used a bicycle to escape the tsunami.
Click on the photo above to go to the CNN link to her story.
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