hangonsloopy
Posts: 1,291
Mar 11, 2011 10:27am
I have a friend living in Kauai. She posted that the tsunami pretty much died and didn't affect them much at all.
ptown_trojans_1
Posts: 7,632
Mar 11, 2011 10:44am
Wow, crazy footage of roads split in two and rivers sweeping things away. Oddly enough, my former boss is in Japan touring a plant that measures earthquakes that is also used by the IAEA to measure potential nuclear explosions.
But, this is the message he posted this morning on his blog:
But, this is the message he posted this morning on his blog:
armscontrolwonk.com
Ok, so that earthquake joke I made the other day is no longer funny. Apparently, those quakes were just the warm-up act for the massive 8.9 behemoth that struck us today.
I was just exiting the Tokyo subway when it hit. News reports quote people saying that the quake seemed to go on forever. That was certainly what struck me. I also noticed that plenty of locals were really scared. This was different. (The exception were a few intrepid senior citizens who kept shopping, completely at peace with the concept that each minute might be the last one.)
Although I am sure that the devastation in the northeast is every bit as bad as the news reports, Tokyo is calm. Well, most of Tokyo is calm. Then there is me. I cannot believe that this morning I was sitting in a Japanese bath in Hokkaido. That seems like years ago.
On the 14th floor, I feel each and every sway of each and every aftershock, which come regularly. (Though not quite as frequently as the phantom aftershocks I imagine.) Still, I am conscious of my relative comfort with a large room in a luxury hotel. There are lots of people stranded in the hotel lobby. The highways are blocked off. It is cold. Still, order prevails.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who asked after me. I am fine and am looking forward to getting home.
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muffy
Posts: 128
Mar 11, 2011 1:22pm
Don't know the sub name but a US sub in Guam took heavy damaged. Was tied to 3 piers and broke loose (a crew member notified his sister and that's where I got this information, she didn't mention the name of the sub and I didn't think to ask).
Fab1b
Posts: 12,949
Mar 11, 2011 1:41pm
Possible radiation leak now at failed power plant in Japan. Tsunami waves destroy boats in CA harbor.
Thread Bomber
Posts: 1,851
Mar 11, 2011 1:47pm
What comes around, goes around.
McFly1955
Posts: 1,441
Mar 11, 2011 1:54pm
Thread Bomber;707758 wrote:What goes around, comes around.
FYP
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thavoice
Posts: 14,376
Mar 11, 2011 2:04pm
Thread Bomber;707758 wrote:What comes around, goes around.
Kinda thought the same thing....but it may be a little bit too early. Juuuuust a little it.
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MrMcCluskie
Posts: 624
Mar 11, 2011 2:12pm
My heart goes out to Japan. What a disaster.
But I bet I know who will send Billions of dollars to them that they can't afford. Maybe we will borrow it from China.lol
But I bet I know who will send Billions of dollars to them that they can't afford. Maybe we will borrow it from China.lol
McFly1955
Posts: 1,441
Mar 11, 2011 2:33pm
ptown_trojans_1
Posts: 7,632
Mar 11, 2011 2:40pm
Geesh. Wow.
I've also heard that they vent some gas from the facility that is slightly radiated. (Not lethal, but one reason they evacuated some areas)
I've also heard that they vent some gas from the facility that is slightly radiated. (Not lethal, but one reason they evacuated some areas)
Ytowngirlinfla
Posts: 2,295
Mar 11, 2011 3:59pm
What a long day so far. We were called in to get ready to get underway at 315 am this morning. Nothing happened out here in San Diego and nothing really happened in Hawaii except for I guess a lot of cell phones aren't working. I know the Navy is sending currently deployed ships over there like the carrier USS Ronald Regan.
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gut
Posts: 15,058
Mar 11, 2011 5:02pm
The crazy (and scary) thing is how the earthquake started cars on fire...even more so with catching cars on fire around it.
Wildcat24
Posts: 261
Mar 11, 2011 11:59pm
We got a tiny bit of surge up here in Alaska. A friend in Sitka said the water level rose 3 feet when it arrived. I was actually on the marine highway when it arrived, shook the ferry a little was all.
Leonardo
Posts: 4,986
Mar 12, 2011 12:32pm
Midstate01
Posts: 14,766
Mar 12, 2011 12:59pm
We finally are going to be leaving for misawa, Japan at 1:30 am PT tonight from Seattle. We know base still has no power and have had multiple aftershocks today. But our sponsor told us the damage on base is minimal and no water reached base. The surrounding areas on the other hand are heavily damaged. It's 20 degrees and snow is expected Monday he said, so conditions aren't great.
Keep these people in your prayers!!
Keep these people in your prayers!!
CinciX12
Posts: 2,874
Mar 12, 2011 5:37pm
How the hell is bombing Pearl Harbor which is a military base deserving of an event that crippled an entire country and will take decades to recover from? You have to be kidding me.
GoChiefs
Posts: 16,754
Mar 12, 2011 7:22pm
CinciX12;709392 wrote:How the hell is bombing Pearl Harbor which is a military base deserving of an event that crippled an entire country and will take decades to recover from? You have to be kidding me.
It just took karma 70 years to return the favor.
/sarcasm
sleeper
Posts: 27,879
Mar 12, 2011 7:31pm
CinciX12;709392 wrote:How the hell is bombing Pearl Harbor which is a military base deserving of an event that crippled an entire country and will take decades to recover from? You have to be kidding me.
Decades?
CinciX12
Posts: 2,874
Mar 12, 2011 7:47pm
Yes decades. Where do you suggest they start cleaning up? Its Hurricane Katrina by about 100x.
CinciX12
Posts: 2,874
Mar 12, 2011 7:53pm
Yes decades. Where do you suggest they start cleaning up? Its Hurricane Katrina by about 100x.
sleeper
Posts: 27,879
Mar 12, 2011 10:19pm
CinciX12;709501 wrote:Yes decades. Where do you suggest they start cleaning up? Its Hurricane Katrina by about 100x.
No its not.
HitsRus
Posts: 9,206
Mar 12, 2011 10:26pm
Karma? seriously? If there was karma for the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it was delivered in 1945 to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Just heard a report...that according to GPS satellites, Japan has been moved 8 feet closer to North America.
here's the link:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Quake-moved-Japan-by-8-feet-USGS/articleshow/7690613.cms
Just heard a report...that according to GPS satellites, Japan has been moved 8 feet closer to North America.
here's the link:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/Quake-moved-Japan-by-8-feet-USGS/articleshow/7690613.cms
CinciX12
Posts: 2,874
Mar 12, 2011 10:42pm
sleeper;709601 wrote:No its not.
How is it not? Katrina crippled a US city. This is the equivalent to crippling the entire eastern sea board of the US. How big do you think Japan is?
Classyposter58
Posts: 6,321
Mar 13, 2011 7:36am
CinciX12;709501 wrote:Yes decades. Where do you suggest they start cleaning up? Its Hurricane Katrina by about 100x.
No it's a little different. Tsunami waters recede almost instantly...New Orleans was underwater for a long time. Also the population that got hit by the wave wasn't very big, New Orleans metroplex was a giant port. Katrina also killed more people...currently about 2500 more
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areyoukiddingme
Posts: 88
Mar 13, 2011 8:16am
classyposter, how ignorant.
The death toll isn't ANYWHERE near being finalized.
There are towns completely gone and thousands missing still.
This is much worse than Katrina - perhaps the water was gone faster, but the clean up and death toll will be worse.
The death toll isn't ANYWHERE near being finalized.
There are towns completely gone and thousands missing still.
This is much worse than Katrina - perhaps the water was gone faster, but the clean up and death toll will be worse.