We Received our blessing from the sea, it's natural that sometimes the sea takes it back

This was the statement I heard from the locals here in Iwate ken during my visit today. Most of us who will hear that will surely say "what kind of thinking is that?" For people who survived the great tsunami, their relationship with the sea is unbroken. Most of them get their livelihood from the sea. The sea is a treasure, that supports them.
Upon hearing this words from the local fishermen, I feel that there is a great hope within their hearts. That they will never abandon the sea and their livelihood despite their experience of the tsunami in this area. The hope that one day everything will go back to normal and that the sea once in a while will take what it his own.
It's a mutual relation, we can never be enemies forever but we have to live in harmony with one another with the sea and the nature.