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Japan.
Link. Check this link out from the NY times. It's before and after images of the cities in Japan. Words cannot describe.
Re: Japan.
This is so sad. Friday when I was watching some of the coverage I seriously got all teary eyed. I can not even imagine. Those poor people. It breaks my heart.
DH and I were talking about it yesterday and we are a 10 minute drive from the ocean. We have a low chance of earthquakes, etc, but let me tell you, if something like this happened, we would be wiped out. Scary.
The whole thing makes me really upset. All of my friends have now checked in and are okay, but that's devastation on a major level. I'm really not a fan of a lot of the news coverage of the nuclear reactors either. All these purported experts keep coming on and saying that the Japanese shouldn't be building on a fault line (uh, all of Japan is on a fault line, idiot). I watched this smug engineer essentially say "this'll teach 'em" on one of the US (and not Fox) channels last night and I almost threw the remote at the tv.
I've been trying to get most of my news off of NHK, which is the Japanese news site (it's in English), it's way more comprehensive and far less judgmental than the news being shown over here.
Also, has anybody else noticed that the news agencies here are interviewing just about any English speaking person in Japan, regardless of where they live? I saw one man introduced as "an American living in Japan who speaks Japanese". The guy saw and felt nothing. Eye roll. Apparently being white and speaking Japanese makes you an authority on all things earthquake and tsunami related.
Any poli-sci junkies out there? If I make an othering and the Orient comment, would anyone get the Said reference?
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I feel woefully uninformed about this whole thing. I'll be reading through NHK today though, so thanks for that kaesha.
All I know is that when I took my graduate course on 2-phase flow one of the engineers that works for AECL (Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd) came in to talk about all the failsafes in place on the CANDU reactors. IMO, they're not going to build a reactor on a fault line without implementing many backup systems. Yes, reactor meltdown =/= good times, but I like to believe they've got the tools in place to handle this.
We'll just not tell H about this little fact, m'kay?
It is impossible to protect yourself 100% against natural disasters, you can only try to develop a solid plan and weigh your risks. Hind sight is always 20/20, but considering how well the Japanese people and government are reacting to this tragedy, I would say they had a pretty good plan in place prior to these events.
I get limited coverage over here (news that I can fully understand) but I am very impressed with the order and the way the people are conducting themselves. I'm not seeing the looting, crime and other chaos that often accompanies these types of tragedies. To me, that signifies that there was a plan in place, the government or aid workers are communicating with the people and tending to their immediate needs. I'm sure there are several problems and the aid plan has flaws, but for level of devastation, I am very impressed so far.
Those before and after pictures are incredible. I also think that despite the devastation, it seems the Japenese were well prepared for this sort of a disaster, as well as they could be.
On a side note, this has made me realize how very real the possibility is that an earthquake of that magnitude and potential aftermath could devastate California. As much as we are aware of it, we tend to put it in the back of our minds as something that will happen someday and I don't think as a state we are ready for it at all.