Japan Quake
I've gotten numerous messages questioning my safety. I am fine. Shaken (no pun intended) but fine. I got stranded in Oosakura while going to fetch my family at the airport, and had to hitchhike the rest of the way. Tokyo is mostly fine. Sendai got hit HARD.
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We're with you here. Best of luck!
They're currently evacuating Hawaii, to hills because the Tsunami is expected to hit the west coast, either tonight or tomorrow.
And It´s good to hear everything is ok Divisio. All the best wishes from the Chilean people, at least from me.
I only once experienced some slight earthquakes on my own, where you woke up in the night because the bed and the rest of what was in the room was shaking for some seconds.
As always with these earthquakes, especially if the epicentre is somewhere near the coastline: If we could get more along with each other on earth then there wouldn't be cities or even nuclear power plants near where tectonic plates converge or they would be built in a completely different, most probably too expensive, way. But as things aren't this way, people will more or less have to life with it from time to time and it will probably take a big desaster before something changes first.
Hey dude I'm feeling you right now man. Thats terrible. Any of your family or friends hurt? We keep getting tremors here, how about there man?
That is good considering what could be happening to you right now.
Yep. I just got on. ^_____^
Still... that's an incredible amount of destruction, with a lot of lives lost... A lot of countries seem to be on the receiving end of earthly tremors, lately. Here's hoping that everyone pitches in to help in one way or another - not just Japan, but New Zealand and other hit sites...
I got lucky. Our family was able to reunite after my train broke down (I hoofed it to the nearest station and hitchhiked to get my ass to them), but there were others in the airport I spent all night calling on my cell to try and reunite families back together. Some still haven't been able to. Some in Sendai have absolutely nothing now, other than the clothes on their backs.
I know my birthday isn't until September, but if you could spare even a dollar or a Euro to spare to send to Red Cross or any of the other relief agencies providing food, warmth, shelter, and a little shred of kindness to displaced people here in Japan, well, I'd be in your debt and it would be te best gift you could give me or anyone else living here right now.
-S. Winters
(divisionten)
I am in no way taking humour in the event it self, it's just annoying how the media discuss a big flood for a week or so, and something like a tsunami happens, and they go on it for weeks (And this flood caused a LOT OF DAMAGE last year)
Through media like TV, newspapers, radio you always got a filtered view of the earth. Some of it is part of what journalism is about, some of it isn't and comes closer to manipulation. If you really have the time to, the internet can be a helpful tool trying to get a more unbiased point of view or different point of views but as i suggested already this involves more energy than just turning the TV on. For a start it can already be interesting reading newspapers from different countries.
That's been all over the news for weeks?
Edit: Just saw on the news that's there's been an explosion at one of the nuclear power plants, this could cause even more trouble for the poor people in Japan
Either everythings fine, or there is more radiation leakage than they are letting in on.
Do they accept paypal? I'll hapily donate £5, I'm short of cash right now but I've heard of the awesome and selfless work they are doing.
What's this about a nuclear power plant exploding, them claiming there is minimal radiation leakage, but people are being given iodene tablets over a large radius?
Either everythings fine, or there is more radiation leakage than they are letting in on.