Assessment teams reached the severely affected city of Sendai in the Miyagi Prefecture within 24 hours after a 30-foot (7-meter) tsunami wave crashed through the city, destroying entire communities and claiming the lives of more than 1,600 people with more than 10,000 people still missing. “The damage is so devastating, I have no words left to utter,” said Atsushi Suhara, Program Officer for ADRA Japan after flying over Natori city to assess the level of the damage. Working together with local authorities, ADRA Japan provided hot meals in an evacuation center in the Miyagino Ward of Sendai City where approximately 300 displaced people are living and 1,300 spend the night.