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Posted: **Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:40 am**

http://www.cnn.com/2011....?hpt=C2

When the tsunami came, everyone ran to the hills. But Sugawara ran to his boat and steered it into deeper waters. "I knew if I didn't save my boat, my island would be isolated and in trouble," he tells CNN.

Posted: **Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:49 pm**

...the only way he could find his way was with the guide of raging fires at Kesunnuma -- 5 kilometers (3 miles) away.

That's some Conan (not O'Brien, of Robert E. Howard fame) shit, right there.

Posted: **Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:41 pm**

As we used to say, "ooh rah get some."

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