Posted on 03/10/2011 10:13:38 PM PST by Ronin
Tokyo just got smacked hard. Still feeling tremors. Refrigerator broken, glass everywhere. I'm safe.
Other Japan FReepers check in!!
I am so frustrated that I can do so little.
Now they are saying the cooling towers on the nuclear plant are not working and the plant officials are scrambling (and evacuating) to get the plant to safety.
The earthquake line is 86 MILES — it has had over 100 aftershocks and many of those aftershocks are > 6.0.
Japan confirms > 1,000 dead but we are also hearing it may be as many as 80,000!
People are huddling together to keep warm where the power is out and people have been forced to the roofs of their buildings — I think it is quite cold.
Prayers are all I have for the moment. We all need to keep them going.
I am aghast — aghast.
Are you watching Fox News?
They are showing buidlings — no signs of any people.
Houses and cars are all gone except for hard concrete structures.
This is a TRUE disaster.
It makes Katrina look like a walk in the park.
Strange things happen to your HTML when you’re trying to translate Japanese and post at the same time...
Thanks for correcting the link...
It’s surreal.
For the time being I am totally hesitant to accept that high of a figure. Japan trains for events like this, unlike most countries Japan takes it very seriously about tsunamis and earthquakes.
This will be or could be Americas shining moment to pull out the stops and to assist our ally, BUT..
If that idiot who thinks he is in charge waffles on this one inch it will most assuredly mean the immediate end of him.
I bet he does just that, holds back aid, a real POTUS says “Dam the torpedos”!
Japan needs help. They need helos, hovercraft, portable water, shelters and first aid.
No one can “train” for a tsumani that reaches inland for several miles.
I am from Los Angeles and have been through many earthquakes: Sylmar, Malibu, Whittier Narrows, Palmdale, and, of course Northridge.
It has been said that the one thing Los Angeles is good at is earthquake preparedness. After Northridge we literally inspected and required repairs on every major building in the entire area.
I can 100% promise you that a 2 mile wave that ran across Santa Monica and Malibu into West L.A. would create similar havoc as we are seeing in Japan.
I ain’t bragging — quite the opposite, I think when Mother nature brings the hammer down, we can only hope our preparations help us to survive.
CNN is reporting at up to 8 US Navy ships are being repositioned toward Japan to help however they can.
Medical care will be one huge benefit.
One of the shots showing large numbers of cars jumbled together with many of them on fire is evidently of a car factory where completed vehicles were being staged for shipment to dealers or to foreign ports.
Thank you for bringing this site to my attention. However, I prefer to give my time and attention to scientifically oriented ping lists such as Catastrophism.
I caught that too. That's where I looked at my wife, made some uncomplimentary comments about the TOTUS and asked her "Who writes this stuff?" as I shut the TV off.
I started jumping from ABC to CBS to NBC this am, minutes after the disaster was reported. There was lots of news, also when I finally woke up at 8 am. It hardly looked like sensorship to me. Concerns for tsunami danger to Guam, Hawaii, and our West Coast were all expresses. I suspect that things in Hawaii were relatively minor.
Checking the internet I saw one photo of a man not terribly far from the shore watching/photographing? the water and thought, why is that idiot standing so close? I see here a newsman was washed out to sea. The same idiot? Once I was walking down a city street and heard multiple gunshots about a block away. I immediately ducked behind a large cement column, others were running toward the gunfire to see what was happening. A middle aged black man was already behind the column. We just shook our heads as we watched the idiots run toward the gunshots. Three people killed during the bank robbery.
CNN
Evac zone around the Fukushima Prefecture nuclear power plant has been expanded to 10 kilometers.
Then there is Yellowstone...
A security guard where I used to work was from Monserrat, and used to refer to the earlier (1843) eruption of Guadeloupe, which is nearby. The stories of that 19th c eruption were still talked about.
http://www.caribbeanvolcanoes.com/
I just heard on evening news that the Fairfax, VA Search and Rescue Squad is getting ready to go to Japan. They did work in Haiti and I think Katrina among other places.
“via NBC Nightly News: Tokyo Electric Power Co. is reporting that they have lost control of the pressure in their No. 1 & 2 nuclear reactors with temps rising”
Medical is one major concern and the need will only become greater in the coming days.
Also, they are needing helicopters to be able to get to devastated areas.
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