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Japan???
It hasn't been discussed over here. What are everyone's thoughts, feelings, etc about everything that's happened over there.
My thoughts are that every single day I think about complaining about the commute in because of snow, or the humidity in July I'll remember this and be thankful that at its worst we only have to deal with snow and ice...and not Tsunami's and earthquakes, and potential nuclear disasters in our own home state.
Re: Japan???
I'm stunned and overwhelmed by it all. The footage--the photos and the videos of the tsunami and its aftermath are unreal.
My brother and SIL (who's Japanese) were evacuated from their home in Guam, and my aunt, uncle and cousins were evacuated from their home on the OR coast. Fortunately, there was no major destruction where they lived. My SIL's family in Japan are ok, but some of my brother and SIL's friends who were in Sendai have not been heard from.
And yes, it does put our snow complaints in perspective.
To be completely honest I think I've become numb to the most recent natural disasters. My brain cannot even begin to comprehend what it's like to live through something like that.
It's horrible. Absolutely horrible.
But the craziest thing happened to me to two years ago.
The town where we lived in Indiana flooded and there was news coverage on CNN of the flooding. Ironically enough I was flying back to Indy - I looked up at the news and my apartment building was on TV. I was standing in line to check in at the gate and I swear I almost had a heart attack.
I said outloud, "Oh my God, that's my apartment!" The woman in front of me heard and ushered me up to the front of the line - I got on the next non-stop flight to Indy.
When I got to Indy the main high way was closed due to it washing out and i couldn't get home - I had to drive 4 hours around the state and almost to Kentucky and then backtrack. It was awful.
When I finally got home, it was disgusting. There were trees, garbage, you could see the water line where it stopped on buildings. People dragged their stuff out onto their front lawn and just threw everything away. Nothing could really be saved because of all the bacteria and disgusting water. We were in a federal disaster zone.
I also can not begin to comprehend what is going on. I can't imagine the pain people are feeling - to see their homes washed away by a 30 foot wall of water. To see their mother/father/spouse/child/friends/pets washed away with the water. To lose everything.. is something I can't begin to understand.
It makes me feel appreciative for what I do have. It puts things in perspective. It makes me realize that life is so.fragile - that at any moment with no warning, everything could be gone. I also feel overwhelmed - where would you even begin to put your life back together? The dirt, trash, mangled homes/cars/roads/trees... where do you start?
eta: Oh, and the nuclear disaster that is unfolding. Wow. Epic destruction if that thing blows. I hate thinking about it. This is why we need renewable resources to be further developed and utilized. Who cares if the wind turbines block the beautiful view!?! There won't BE a beautiful view to enjoy if we continue to fill our air with smog/blow up or poison our world with nuclear radiation.
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I honestly try not to watch the footage or listen to the reports, because this is how I feel. I thank God that I'm not in that position and pray for those who are. I feel helpless to help (other than monetary donations) and honestly, as bad of an attitude as this might be, it's not affecting me directly, so I try to limit my exposure to the reports.
It's so shocking I'm a little numb to it. My heart goes out to every single person who lost a loved one.
I'm also surprised at myself watching the footage - the one of a boat tipping over in particular - that I'm almost desensitized to it because that's the sort of thing I see in movies as a special effect in movies all the time. But this was no special effect and there were probably people on that boat.
I don't even know what to think about it. It's devastating.
The death toll is over 1,800 and there's 3,000 claimed missing. Awful. Just awful. That number is going up by the hour too. And then there's the people that we don't know about...
And this nuclear meltdown thing. Ugh.
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