Japan tsunami debris: ‘house’ washes up in Washington state

But he added: “It was sobering, especially when you’re smelling somebody
else’s cough syrup. Somebody lived here and it doesn’t look like a house
anymore. I was not prepared to find something like that.”

Curtis Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who is on the expedition’s advisory
board, said it is too soon to confirm whether the debris was from a Japanese
home.

“It’s like an archaeological dig,” he said Tuesday. “It’s a
bunch of things that could be construed as a house.”

If so, it might be the first case of a Japanese home floating 5,000 miles
across the Pacific Ocean following the devastating earthquake and tsunami of
March 11, 2011.

A 66-foot dock ripped loose by the big waves landed on an Oregon beach this
month, and officials confirmed on Tuesday that a 20-foot boat that washed
ashore at Cape Disappointment State Park in southwest Washington last week
came from Japan.

The arrival of debris from the tsunami has worried officials on the West Coast
and in Alaska. They say it will be expensive to clean and could carry
invasive species – a serious threat to the fishing industry. On Monday, Gov
Chris Gregoire called for federal help dealing with the debris.

Source: AP

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