If they'd rather use their money on that instead of sending it to organizations that can help the people currently suffering in japan, then yes, they can choke on cat sand. In a worst case scenario, fukushima-region will be hit hard, not the rest of the world.
Good to hear the japan-based polycounters check in. Glad you dudes are okay. Those people going on about pearl harbour and how this is some kind of karma or payback are the worst kind of stupid. They conveniently forget (or are most likely just too stupid to even realise) that the US already retaliated for the 2,000 dead…
Not just in Japan, but all over. When all is said and done there should be some huge monuments created. And its not just the 50 workers at the plant, its the way everyone in Japan has responded. http://www.thetrumpet.com/?q=8099.6738.0.0 Be thankful that the people around you have a long history of pulling together and…
What I'm curious on, and maybe some of our members in Japan can speak to that, is whether there was any warning at all given beforehand? You would think that with something this big there would be some sort of indication. Even if minutes before, but something. Or was it just totally random?
Japan is also a much more tightly packed country. It doesn't take long to get police/military support from one area to another. I'm sure they have all kinds of support services that started setting up in the affected areas almost immediately.
hey hawken and all others in japan.. wish you all the best and that this turns out as good as in any way possible! These are pictures I haven't seen ever and I can't even imagine how it is to be there. I just can wish you all the best!
People train their whole lives for events like this. From kindergarten kids are put through mock evacuations. Offices are required to carry enough emergency kits for each employee, and train them once a year on evacuation procedures. During the quake, everyone was quite calm around me, even though I was on the street in…
My condolences to everyone! This whole situation is just... unimaginable. An earthquake of 9.0, followed by a tsunami, then the nuclear power problem and now the lack of electricity and the need to feed and to give shelter to the thousands of people that have nowhere to go. No one deserves that, and definitely not Japan so…
often tsunamis are something like 50cm or 1 m high and the tetrapods can handle that with ease. The this that made this one different was the earthquake pushed the americas plate up which forced a wave of (in some places) 10m high rushing back towards to Japan at the same speed as a commercial jet (some 500 mph?) People…
They have a pretty elaborate warning system in place, I was hearing about it the day-of, and was very impressed. from http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/03/11/pm-the-effectiveness-of-japans-earlywarning-earthquake-system/ Glad to hear yall are ok over there! Hopefully it will calm down and life can begin…