I'm just clenching my teeth until I can move out and live like a human being again," says Mr Abe, 66, as she stands in the dim light of her living room with enough space for a couch, table and TV. A grey mould clings to some walls of the prefabricated structure, where Mr Abe has lived with her husband since shortly after a 9m wall of water obliterated large swathes of the city of Ishinomaki on the afternoon of March 11, 2011.