Update:
I am currently sitting in Narita Airport. I have a ticket to go to the United States and a visa to get in and another to get back to Japan if and when things settle down. I've got the bag I brought with me for the trip my family was supposed to take, so I have some toiletries and a week's worth of clothes, plenty of money, my computer and iPod.
Everything else I left behind- from my drawings (thank goodness I photographed most of it a few weeks ago) to my books, stuffed animals, the rest of my clothing, power cables, and, well, pretty much everything else.
I'm just glad to be alive. I hope I can get on my flight in 17 hours. The plane should have left from Newark NJ 10 minutes ago. Can someone check for me- as I have no access to Continental's website right now with all of the stranded travelers sharing one wifi hotspot. I can barely get on this site without it freezing every three minutes. It's the only flight going from Newark to Narita (look up Tokyo, and it's one of the two choices) and it should have flown out Tuesday the 15th.
Thank you guys for being utterly fantastic and supportive. I know what I left behind is just *stuff*, and I hope to get as far away as possible.
Glad to hear you're still doing okay, divisionten. Sorry to hear about losing your pictures and everything. I know they're just 'things', but I can only imagine the sentimental value some of them must hold.
Here's some data from Continental's website. I hope it's what you're looking for, and I hope it helps.
Continental Flight 9 (United Flight 3869)
Status: In Flight - Estimated to Arrive 5 Minutes Early
DEPARTS
City: New York/Newark, NJ (EWR - Liberty)
Gate: C121
Check-in Terminal: Terminal C
Scheduled Time: 11:10 a.m.
Scheduled Date: Tue., Mar. 15, 2011
Actual Time: 11:14 a.m.
Actual Date: Tue., Mar. 15, 2011
ARRIVES
City: Tokyo, Japan (NRT - Narita)
Gate:
Terminal: Terminal 1, South
Scheduled Time: 2:10 p.m.
Scheduled Date: Wed., Mar. 16, 2011
Estimated Time: 2:05 p.m.
Estimated Date: Wed., Mar. 16, 2011
Well the upside is you get to stay in the US for a while. If your budget and visa permit it, San Rafael is only the other side of the country. I, on the other hand, will probably have to wait some 8-10 years before I get to go. By then, hopefully my green card will have come through and I can settle in the Bay Area, ready to strike as soon as TTG have an opening for an entry-level tester.
My family lives in New Jersey, I'm not •just• going to Newark of all places for no reason. I'm a US citizen also, so the visa thing isn't to get back into the country so much as it is to leave again. And regardless, I'm supposed to move to California in the fall.
I'm very VERY lucky. For the most part, I'm just hungry from lack of food, as I haven't had a meal in days (we've been provided water crackers, and ice cream is still stocked in the vending machines, but...) and tired from being unable to sleep. There are people in japan that have NO food of any kind nor a roof over their heads. There are people drifting out at sea wondering if they will survive. There are people who haven't the slightest clue where their loved ones are.
I urge you to help those who really need it. In comparison, what I'm dealing with is litle more than a minor invonvienence, and I honestly feel guilty about even whining about it to you.
If you have even a penny to spare, help the Red Cross bring food, blankets, and bottled water to these people like they did for me.
I urge you to help those who really need it. In comparison, what I'm dealing with is litle more than a minor invonvienence, and I honestly feel guilty about even whining about it to you.
No need to feel guilty for venting... sure many others have it far worse, but your experience hasn't exactly been all peaches and gravy.
Have a safe flight back. Bet you can't wait to get on that plane.
The real horror in Japan right now is the nuclear crisis and they're on the edge of being on the stone age...It's horrible. This is very frightening. It's a mess over there, I don't know what to expect. I don't know if we're out of disaster yet. Essentially the entire world is SCREWED, some of us just don't know it yet.
The real horror in Japan right now is the nuclear crisis and they're on the edge of being on the stone age...It's horrible. This is very frightening. It's a mess over there, I don't know what to expect. I don't know if we're out of disaster yet. Essentially the entire world is SCREWED, some of us just don't know it yet.
Can someone please expand on the danger of the nuclear plant explosions? what radioactive chemicals have been leaked? is it serious?
Also I see what your getting at with the world being screwed, due to importing and exporting, but it isn't a major issue!
Can someone please expand on the danger of the nuclear plant explosions? what radioactive chemicals have been leaked? is it serious?
This article is a start. It's non-sensationalist and explains the current situation, dangers etc concisely. SMH has some decent coverage, there quite a few more articles on there about the reactors and the radiation risk.
Damn it! As long as the enlightened ones survive, I don't care anymore. We should all be whipped out! We can't live on the level of enlightenment. We're just drones, tools for the world's finest minds. Let them get on the Arks, whatever necessary. The lot of us are ignorant and worthless.
If the end is near, let those who truly matter survive. Too many stupid people in this world! :mad: We aren't deserving!
We need the new agenda! We need the new order! Purge the world of this filth and worthless "existence". The world deserves a higher order, level of being, a truer and deeper existence. This pathetic race of human beings is undeserving! NEW AGENDA!
The human race has failed. They have failed. Defective and primitive! NEW WORLD! NEW ORDER!
Yeah, those comments of ignorance are by very, very few people who happen to be born without a brain (and or basic human emotions/ compassion/ knowledge of their own country's history). Best to be ignored entirely. And it's certainly not one in a hundred, but a much lower number. Thankfully, that kind of talk is not at all present in Germany.
You mean that she is le safe. Or actually, I guess it would be la safe. Mmh. Either way, it just sounds funnier with the article in French. I like saying "Je suis le back!"
I urge you to help those who really need it. In comparison, what I'm dealing with is little more than a minor inconvenience, and I honestly feel guilty about even whining about it to you.
It's weird how people who were there but were (relatively) spared feel guilty. In contrast, here is me, complaining if I get a stuffed nose or miss Seamus because he leaves at 7am and comes back at 11pm on good days.
I think you should feel free to keep complaining. It's good for us to get a feel of how things are over there, it makes it more real to hear (read) you talk about the details of it.
I've actually been in a very small earthquake myself, right here where I live, but it just felt like a very large truck was driving past the window. I can't imagine the comparison to this
The biggest earthquake I was ever in was while I was in Taiwan. It made me almost fall over and some stuff fell off my shelf. But there was no real damage.
I've never been in an earthquake. The closest I've had was living over the subway, so I could feel it every five minutes as it was going by, and quickly learned not to notice it. It was funny when people came visit and where all like "earthquake!" and I was like "what? Oh, did a subway go by? You'll get used to it".
But yeah, there aren't really earthquakes in France, let alone Paris. I don't even know how to act if one happens. I've been trying to learn now that I'm in Cali, but it all seems so abstract that I can't remember the beginning of it.
Since I'm in California, I've had several earthquakes but none of this magnitude. I think I actually slept through the biggest one and woke up to find most of my things had fallen off the shelves and that we had a broken window. The second biggest... well, I was in a lab surrounded by glassware and it was very close to not being very pretty.
In moderately related news, my mom finally got in contact with one of her Japanese friends who we were fairly worried about. She's fine, though she had to spend the night at the university that she works at.
We dropped two atomic bombs on them. I don't think they exactly had any bad karma waiting for them.
The bombs are insignificant. War requires certain measures. Far more Japanese civilians were killed by earlier attacks. The droppings were just and I will not apologize! </getsCarriedAway>
I had literally just finished reading "Flags of our Fathers" when I heard of the quake. My sympathy was limited.
As a Japanese, I am really sick of this kind of comments regarding to the earthquake. Unless they personally killed someone, none of them deserved to die.
The bombs are insignificant. War requires certain measures. Far more Japanese civilians were killed by earlier attacks. The droppings were just and I will not apologize! </getsCarriedAway>
What the Hell??? How can a bomb be insignificant? More people got killed at another time, therefore it's okay to kill a few less with a bomb? :S
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I am currently sitting in Narita Airport. I have a ticket to go to the United States and a visa to get in and another to get back to Japan if and when things settle down. I've got the bag I brought with me for the trip my family was supposed to take, so I have some toiletries and a week's worth of clothes, plenty of money, my computer and iPod.
Everything else I left behind- from my drawings (thank goodness I photographed most of it a few weeks ago) to my books, stuffed animals, the rest of my clothing, power cables, and, well, pretty much everything else.
I'm just glad to be alive. I hope I can get on my flight in 17 hours. The plane should have left from Newark NJ 10 minutes ago. Can someone check for me- as I have no access to Continental's website right now with all of the stranded travelers sharing one wifi hotspot. I can barely get on this site without it freezing every three minutes. It's the only flight going from Newark to Narita (look up Tokyo, and it's one of the two choices) and it should have flown out Tuesday the 15th.
Thank you guys for being utterly fantastic and supportive. I know what I left behind is just *stuff*, and I hope to get as far away as possible.
Here's some data from Continental's website. I hope it's what you're looking for, and I hope it helps.
Continental Flight 9 (United Flight 3869)
Status: In Flight - Estimated to Arrive 5 Minutes Early
DEPARTS
City: New York/Newark, NJ (EWR - Liberty)
Gate: C121
Check-in Terminal: Terminal C
Scheduled Time: 11:10 a.m.
Scheduled Date: Tue., Mar. 15, 2011
Actual Time: 11:14 a.m.
Actual Date: Tue., Mar. 15, 2011
ARRIVES
City: Tokyo, Japan (NRT - Narita)
Gate:
Terminal: Terminal 1, South
Scheduled Time: 2:10 p.m.
Scheduled Date: Wed., Mar. 16, 2011
Estimated Time: 2:05 p.m.
Estimated Date: Wed., Mar. 16, 2011
My last flight was 16 years ago...
Whatever drawings you need re-drawn, I'll help!! Except Manga stuff.
I'm very VERY lucky. For the most part, I'm just hungry from lack of food, as I haven't had a meal in days (we've been provided water crackers, and ice cream is still stocked in the vending machines, but...) and tired from being unable to sleep. There are people in japan that have NO food of any kind nor a roof over their heads. There are people drifting out at sea wondering if they will survive. There are people who haven't the slightest clue where their loved ones are.
I urge you to help those who really need it. In comparison, what I'm dealing with is litle more than a minor invonvienence, and I honestly feel guilty about even whining about it to you.
If you have even a penny to spare, help the Red Cross bring food, blankets, and bottled water to these people like they did for me.
No need to feel guilty for venting... sure many others have it far worse, but your experience hasn't exactly been all peaches and gravy.
Have a safe flight back. Bet you can't wait to get on that plane.
Can someone please expand on the danger of the nuclear plant explosions? what radioactive chemicals have been leaked? is it serious?
Also I see what your getting at with the world being screwed, due to importing and exporting, but it isn't a major issue!
Irradiated girl being isolated greeting a dog through a glass pane.
What material leaked out of the reactors, I think the media are being told to play it down, the videos of the explosions do not look good at all
I left a post about the radiation on the 'Thanks everyone!' thread
This article is a start. It's non-sensationalist and explains the current situation, dangers etc concisely. SMH has some decent coverage, there quite a few more articles on there about the reactors and the radiation risk.
Damn it! As long as the enlightened ones survive, I don't care anymore. We should all be whipped out! We can't live on the level of enlightenment. We're just drones, tools for the world's finest minds. Let them get on the Arks, whatever necessary. The lot of us are ignorant and worthless.
If the end is near, let those who truly matter survive. Too many stupid people in this world! :mad: We aren't deserving!
We need the new agenda! We need the new order! Purge the world of this filth and worthless "existence". The world deserves a higher order, level of being, a truer and deeper existence. This pathetic race of human beings is undeserving! NEW AGENDA!
The human race has failed. They have failed. Defective and primitive! NEW WORLD! NEW ORDER!
certainly. And for the lady?
You're right. I'm over reacting.
You mean that she is le safe. Or actually, I guess it would be la safe. Mmh. Either way, it just sounds funnier with the article in French. I like saying "Je suis le back!"
It's weird how people who were there but were (relatively) spared feel guilty. In contrast, here is me, complaining if I get a stuffed nose or miss Seamus because he leaves at 7am and comes back at 11pm on good days.
I think you should feel free to keep complaining. It's good for us to get a feel of how things are over there, it makes it more real to hear (read) you talk about the details of it.
But yeah, there aren't really earthquakes in France, let alone Paris. I don't even know how to act if one happens. I've been trying to learn now that I'm in Cali, but it all seems so abstract that I can't remember the beginning of it.
In moderately related news, my mom finally got in contact with one of her Japanese friends who we were fairly worried about. She's fine, though she had to spend the night at the university that she works at.
Thankfully, I've never been through an earthquake with any major destruction nearby.
I'm so glad. Take your time out. How's that roommate of yours doing who was in the BTTF competition movie?
*heaves sigh of relief*
She went to Malaysia for vacation two weeks ago and is still there, so she's just fine.
The bombs are insignificant. War requires certain measures. Far more Japanese civilians were killed by earlier attacks. The droppings were just and I will not apologize! </getsCarriedAway>
As a Japanese, I am really sick of this kind of comments regarding to the earthquake. Unless they personally killed someone, none of them deserved to die.
What the Hell??? How can a bomb be insignificant? More people got killed at another time, therefore it's okay to kill a few less with a bomb? :S
I was about to delete these posts - and I sure will if this "idea" floats on.