I too have been up most of the night watching this, some of the most gut wrenching video is of seeing waves of cars trying to go under a freeway overpass in the wave, and you see cars with wipers and flashers on, of another image of a car or a truck trying to outrace the wave at very high speed, all of a sudden it stops when the wave cuts them off, and then the chopper video ends.
And the fishing boats trying to climb over the wave, you see a massive belch of diesel smoke as the captain firewalls the throttles to point the bow near vertical, again we lose sight of the vessel.
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.