WTF! JAPANESE MAN GETS RESCUED 9 MILES OUT TO SEA AFTER HIS HOUSE GOT WASHED AWAY!

Amid the appalling devastation in Japan, there were a handful of small miracles.

Just ask Hiromitsu Shinkawa, who was rescued from the roof of his house - floating 9 miles out at sea.

Shinkawa, 60, had seen his wife swept away by the tidal wave that washed his home away and sent him swirling into the open ocean clinging to debris.

He spent two days on the makeshift 10-foot raft his roof had become, trying to hail rescuers with a scrap of red cloth affixed to a long stick.

"Several helicopters and ships passed by, but none of them noticed me," he was quoted as saying by the Kyodo news agency.

Finally, someone on a passing naval destroyer spotted him and sent a small boat to fetch him.

When he was brought on board, Shinkawa immediately burst into tears.

"I thought today was the last day of my life," he said.

Shinkawa's hometown, Minamisoma, where 10,000 people lived, was completely obliterated by the tidal wave.


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