Acton Woman Survives Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami, Makes Contact with Mother
Caitlin Churchill, 22, was teaching in Japan when the earthquake and tsunami hit.
Acton's Caitlin Churchill was right 'in the thick of it' when the Japanese tsunami hit a week ago today -- and she managed to survive. She did it, said her mother, by running and spending the night in the woods. Many of the rest of the people who lived in the village of Minamisanriku where Churchill has been teaching English to Japanese students may not be so fortunate. According to Wikipedia, the village of about 19,000 is still missing an estimated 9,500 people -- about half the population. That number appearas to be a huge chunk of what CNN reported on its Japan Quake Live Blog: 10,259 people reported missing, plus a confirmed death toll of more than 6,000, as of about midnight Acton time Thursday night. “From what I have gathered, the…
