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...without power throughout the archipelago on Wednesday, Japanese television stations aired nonstop storm coverage, including riveting shots of gushing waters and daring rescues. In the western port city of Maizuru, 36 elderly tourists and their driver were stranded on the roof of their bus overnight as the overflowing Yura River swirled around them. The passengers later told Japan's Kyodo News service that they broke the windows of the bus with a hammer and then sang the 1961 hit Ue o Muite Arukou (known abroad as the Sukiyaki song) to muster courage. At one point, the water rose to stomach...
...wasn’t for its river perch, Newell Boathouse might resemble a cathedral. From certain angles, you can envision the building’s red and gray slate exterior cradling a congregation; the softly curved architecture of its roof serving as a shelter for a choir...
...Charles River keeps the imagination from going further. One glance at that illustrious intersection of waves and angled wooden deck reveals the link between Cambridge’s famous water and Harvard’s historic tradition. The faithful attending services here, you are instantly reminded, are the rowers of the world’s most storied collegiate program. Their mass is practice; they are not parishioners of the divine...
...astonishingly, Aaron Holzapfel is undeterred by the looming presence of the river. Certainly not while rowing, and not in the boathouse that is his second home...
Astonishingly, you see, Aaron Holzapfel is undeterred by the looming presence of the river...