Skip to comments.
Snow blankets Japan's tsunami deadlands
Asia One ^
| 03/16/11
Posted on 03/16/2011 5:45:28 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
AFP
Snow blankets Japan's tsunami deadlands
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
TOKYO, JAPAN - A blanket of snow covered disaster areas of northeast Japan on Wednesday, amid a cold snap in the debris-strewn wastelands created by last week's quake and tsunami catastrophe.
Survivors and rescue crews - already facing an acute lack of water, supplies and fuel, power blackouts and poor telecommunications - had their troubles compounded by snow flurries over roads and rubble.
Temperatures in the worst-hit Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures fell sharply to near zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), and the meteorological agency forecast a drop to minus five degrees C Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at asiaone.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthquake; japanearthquake; rescue; snow; tsunami
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-34 next last
To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...
2
posted on
03/16/2011 5:46:49 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
3
posted on
03/16/2011 5:47:27 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Wow, Mother Nature kicking ‘em while they’re down.
An awful situation.
To: TigerLikesRooster
The dreaded effects of global cooling.
I don’t mean to make light of a dire situation, but if they had a heat snap over there, you couldn’t keep Algore away from a TV camera.
5
posted on
03/16/2011 5:50:24 AM PDT
by
JusPasenThru
(HEY UNION MEMBER: INVEST IN YOUR OWN DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A CHANGE!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
It’s just....heartbreaking.
6
posted on
03/16/2011 5:51:56 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
7
posted on
03/16/2011 5:55:03 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster; SE Mom
8
posted on
03/16/2011 5:59:59 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: maggief; TigerLikesRooster
9
posted on
03/16/2011 6:03:41 AM PDT
by
SE Mom
(Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Can’t these people get a break?
To: baddog 219
With the way the media is hysterically covering this, I wouldn’t be surprised if the snow is called nuclear winter.
11
posted on
03/16/2011 6:08:15 AM PDT
by
Ingtar
(Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
To: TigerLikesRooster
Oh, it just keeps coming. Those poor people.
12
posted on
03/16/2011 6:08:31 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Jack Hammer
Wow, Mother Nature kicking em while theyre down.Snow's a mercy when fresh water is otherwise unavailable.
To: TigerLikesRooster
so anyone still trapped in rubble or even holed up in shelter without supplies is likely dead from hypothermia and thirst
cannot imagine the scope of this tragedy
Northern Japan went from leading industrial nation to Bangladesh in less than a week
14
posted on
03/16/2011 6:15:48 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Japan’s national courage is certainly being tested. A strong people are undergoing heartbreaking troubles. Very sad but inspiring.
15
posted on
03/16/2011 6:17:42 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
You may have a point there; I just hope nobody freezes.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Those poor people. They’ve suffered so much, and it’s far from over.
17
posted on
03/16/2011 6:20:23 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: JimSEA
I live in southern Japan , far from all the devestation and misery . We live a relatively humble life down here in Kyushu , but compared to those in Sendai , Fukushima , etc ...I feel like I am living the “ life of Reilly “ right now ...Appreciating very much what we have .
18
posted on
03/16/2011 6:25:02 AM PDT
by
sushiman
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Not sure I’d melt the snow into water with a nuke venting nearby.
19
posted on
03/16/2011 6:25:10 AM PDT
by
FrogMom
(There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: FrogMom
"Not sure Id melt the snow into water with a nuke venting nearby.You can remove radiation from water by boiling it.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-34 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson