Pretty soon along came to the village some strangely dressed people who called themselves surveyors; and they surveyed a line in front of my grandmother's little house.
幾人かの被害者は大津波を観測して目を覆うような惨状だったと思っているそうです。
It is said that several victims of the tsunami think that the devestation they saw was the kind that made you cover your eyes.