Ah yeah, I would also suppose with the still very winter weather conditions - and the sheer magnitude of destruction, that looting a soggy television isn't going to be doing anyone any good anyway. You know I really wish I could do more than donate a bit of money to the red cross. I really want to just pick up, fly out…
The system is sent out to every cell phone in the area (this instance, the entire country). It was too fast to get the warning out (for us). The people in Sendai had 5 minutes or less after the quake to get out before the tsunami. I was working on the comp when my cell phone went "WHOOOP!! WHOOP!!" then BAM!! monitors slid…