Tucker says that he has stood on the beach in Padang, looking out at the ocean and trying to imagine what it would be like to see a five-meter-high wall of water stretching across the horizon, bearing down on the city. Now that we have seen the footage of the tsunami that hit Japan, the demands on our imagination have been lessened – except that we have to imagine away the sea walls that Japan had built to reduce the impact of the tsunami.
塔克说他曾经站在巴东的海滩上遥望大海，想象一堵高达5米的水墙在地平线上伸展并向这座城市逼近。看过日本海啸的镜头之后，想像的难度已经大大降低——只有一点，我们必须想像没有日本修建的海啸防波堤会是什么样子。