On New Year’s Day, Rie Manning’s hometown was impacted by the powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake. Her parents are now living in an evacuation center.
PUYALLUP, Wash. — Rie and Trey Manning never anticipated starting the New Year worrying about their loved ones in Japan. It began with a phone call.
“My best friend from Tokyo called me,” Rie said. “She said please contact my parents. She was frantic. Call them. A tsunami is coming.”
Rie said she was still trying to process the news as she told her husband Trey. Since that frantic, late night call, information has been hard to come by. Tokyo is on the other side of the country from where the earthquake struck, the Noto Penisula.
“What is difficult is that I can’t contact my parents,” she said “I’m trying to message all my friends and get information. Little by little, they’ve responded.”
Rie is from Nakajima Japan, a rural town located on …