Seriousness Another tremor hits Japan - Page 6

kennyc · 03-12-2011, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

Aw, thanks, Iʻve been so busy, I havenʻt checked in for a few days. Iʻm fine. I served as a "safe house" for a friend who was evacuated.

Really? I heard the exact opposite. Hilo really didnʻt get much at all. Kona got hit fairly hard (or so CNN keeps reporting, I loved the one about the extensive damage on "kona island"). There is quite a bit of damage, with many businesses gutted with water, and their belongings strewn all over the road. The road was closed for a while as they tried to clean up debris and such as well.

This is the reason I like to live in the middle somewhere-- out of the evacuation zone and not too close to any volcano, lest a new one erupt...

Iʻm concerned for stitchawl though-- has he contacted anyone yet? I have a friend in Japan who suffered some serious injury, but was luckily out of the tsunamiʻs path. The footage is breathtaking and horrible.

Good to hear from you Grace. The destruction there is horrible!

GraceKrispy · 03-12-2011, 08:08 PM

So glad Stitchawlʻs all right, thanks

Fbone · 03-12-2011, 11:31 PM

Such sad news.

It looks like 2011 is starting off on a sad note.

GeoffC · 03-13-2011, 04:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

Hmmm. That's certainly not what the BBC's reporting...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

Correct, it was a comment on the live feed that I noticed, but events have moved on since ....

Our friend and her kids are well, they were in Tokyo - However her father was in Sendai and there has been no contact with him ....

Dodge · 03-13-2011, 05:23 AM

To help Japan with donations go to - http://www1.networkforgood.org/help-...-quake-tsunami

GeoffC · 03-13-2011, 07:38 AM

Tsunami Hits ....

kennyc · 03-13-2011, 07:40 AM

And there's been at least a partial melt-down:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7feb0aaa-4...#axzz1GTjM5JZ8

GeoffC · 03-14-2011, 09:27 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...r-tsunami.html

Before & After - moving slider mid-photo ....

Sweetpea · 03-14-2011, 09:41 AM

I was thinking, I'm missing the green. But, it's only the middle of March, the growing season must still start... Can you imagine this would have happened at the end of the growing season (September)? No grasses coming to cover the devastation with a green shroud and only dark, gray and brown days to look forward to?

wodin · 03-14-2011, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GraceKrispy

Aw, thanks, Iʻve been so busy, I havenʻt checked in for a few days. Iʻm fine. I served as a "safe house" for a friend who was evacuated.

Really? I heard the exact opposite. Hilo really didnʻt get much at all. Kona got hit fairly hard (or so CNN keeps reporting, I loved the one about the extensive damage on "kona island"). There is quite a bit of damage, with many businesses gutted with water, and their belongings strewn all over the road. The road was closed for a while as they tried to clean up debris and such as well.

This is the reason I like to live in the middle somewhere-- out of the evacuation zone and not too close to any volcano, lest a new one erupt...

Iʻm concerned for stitchawl though-- has he contacted anyone yet? I have a friend in Japan who suffered some serious injury, but was luckily out of the tsunamiʻs path. The footage is breathtaking and horrible.

Good to see your OK Grace; for the record what really went down over there? Not what CNN or Joe Moore reported. Over here on O`ahu, we had some roads closed during the actual tsunami watch as a precaution, and a little damage to some boats and at some of the marinas.

All State and County workers were off and all but one of the schools were closed, but it was a furlough day anyway. My trash didn't get picked up until Saturday.

KHVH reported that all Federal workers (me) were "encouraged to stay home", but I was almost at work when I heard that so I went ahead and went in anyway. Lucky for me, ‘cause it was a figment of someone’s imagination. We had one man who didn’t show up, and he got into a little trouble.

CyGuy · 03-14-2011, 04:22 PM

Here is an interactive before/after satellite view, very eye opening:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/ja...eforeafter.htm

nohmi2 · 03-15-2011, 01:06 AM

That area of the world is going through so much trauma and heartache, that for us who are not involved it's impossible to comprehend.

One significant fact that I have noticed amongst he population is; there is no looting, nor turning on each other in times of disaster.

Cheers

GraceKrispy · 03-15-2011, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wodin

Good to see your OK Grace; for the record what really went down over there? Not what CNN or Joe Moore reported. Over here on O`ahu, we had some roads closed during the actual tsunami watch as a precaution, and a little damage to some boats and at some of the marinas.

All State and County workers were off and all but one of the schools were closed, but it was a furlough day anyway. My trash didn't get picked up until Saturday.

KHVH reported that all Federal workers (me) were "encouraged to stay home", but I was almost at work when I heard that so I went ahead and went in anyway. Lucky for me, ‘cause it was a figment of someone’s imagination. We had one man who didn’t show up, and he got into a little trouble.

If you google the area and "tsunami," you see lots of video of the downtown drag under water, and what Bubba Gump restaurant in particular looked like. There's a lovely vid of a dumpster (huge orange dumpster) floating down the street, and a vid of a house floating away in Kealakekua Bay. I know it caused quite a bit of damage, but the damage was to a limited number of locations. It cracked me up that the stations were showing closures of schools, when all the DOE public schools were on furlough anyway!

They did keep one road closed for a good part of the day as they tried to clean up debris and such.

lene1949 · 03-15-2011, 03:52 AM

It has been an awful start to the year... First the Floods in Queensland, then the cyclone Yasi... Soon after that came the more destructive earthquake in Christchurch, and now just 2 months after our flood the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan..

I can't help to think what's next??

All my thoughts and prayers at the moment to the people of Japan, the ones who have family and friends there and to those deeply disturbed by the incident (such as children around the world)

wyndslash · 03-15-2011, 04:22 AM

Sister just texted me and told me to stay inside becaus the radiation might hit us around this time. I'm inside a classroom right now for my next class

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03-12-2011, 08:08 PM	#77
GraceKrispy It's Dr. Penguin now! Posts: 3,909 Karma: 4705733 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: (USA) Device: iPad mini, Samsung Note 3, Sony PRS-650 (rarely used now)	So glad Stitchawlʻs all right, thanks

03-12-2011, 11:31 PM	#78
Fbone Is that a sandwich? Posts: 8,296 Karma: 101697116 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Nook Glowlight Plus	Such sad news. It looks like 2011 is starting off on a sad note.

03-13-2011, 05:23 AM	#80
Dodge Sparks fly off my pages! Posts: 123 Karma: 250002 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Device: Kindle	To help Japan with donations go to - http://www1.networkforgood.org/help-...-quake-tsunami

03-13-2011, 07:38 AM	#81
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Tsunami Hits ....

03-13-2011, 07:40 AM	#82
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,903 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	And there's been at least a partial melt-down: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7feb0aaa-4...#axzz1GTjM5JZ8

03-14-2011, 09:27 AM	#83
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...r-tsunami.html Before & After - moving slider mid-photo ....

03-14-2011, 09:41 AM	#84
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	I was thinking, I'm missing the green. But, it's only the middle of March, the growing season must still start... Can you imagine this would have happened at the end of the growing season (September)? No grasses coming to cover the devastation with a green shroud and only dark, gray and brown days to look forward to?

03-14-2011, 04:22 PM	#86
CyGuy Avid Reader Posts: 769 Karma: 7777778 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: PocketBook 902, Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, ASUS TF700, and Cybook Gen III	Here is an interactive before/after satellite view, very eye opening: http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/ja...eforeafter.htm

03-15-2011, 01:06 AM	#87
nohmi2 Pensively observing. Posts: 1,758 Karma: 12675456 Join Date: Jun 2008 Device: Varied.	That area of the world is going through so much trauma and heartache, that for us who are not involved it's impossible to comprehend. One significant fact that I have noticed amongst he population is; there is no looting, nor turning on each other in times of disaster. Cheers

03-15-2011, 03:52 AM	#89
lene1949 Wizard Posts: 1,952 Karma: 213930 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Middelfart, Denmark Device: Kindle paper white	It has been an awful start to the year... First the Floods in Queensland, then the cyclone Yasi... Soon after that came the more destructive earthquake in Christchurch, and now just 2 months after our flood the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan.. I can't help to think what's next?? All my thoughts and prayers at the moment to the people of Japan, the ones who have family and friends there and to those deeply disturbed by the incident (such as children around the world)

03-15-2011, 04:22 AM	#90
wyndslash Wizard Posts: 2,951 Karma: 3000001 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle 3 wifi, Kindle Fire	Sister just texted me and told me to stay inside becaus the radiation might hit us around this time. I'm inside a classroom right now for my next class