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To evacuate or not to evacuate?
So they announced tonight to the complete shock of everyone stationed here (after being COMPLETELY firm on their stance that they would not, under any condition, no matter how bad things got at Fukushima, bring the topic of evacuation to the table) that they will be starting voluntary evacuations at our base in the coming days. No idea yet where they'll take people or for how long, but I'll have to decide soon.
Corey (obviously?) can't leave. I'm thinking I'm going to stay. Is this totally dumb? Home sounds SO good right now, but "they" say we're still safe from radiation at the moment and the thought of leaving Corey here alone in such a crappy situation is just awful. We'll find out more details about the evacuations tomorrow, so I guess I'll decide then for sure.
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Oh, my goodness, Patty. I just want to fly you to my house, wrap you in a nice warm blanket, feed you milk and cookies and take care of you!
Be safe. I know you and your H will make the right decision. My prayers are with you.
I have no idea. If there was any kind of transparency behind their decisions, it wouldn't be the military.
It would make the decision much easier if I knew their motivation. They're still assuring us we're completely safe. Basically they made it sound like life here is going to be "inconvenient" for the indefinite future, so it could just be that they don't want to have to worry about providing us with heat and electricity and gas. Some people have speculated they're worried about a food shortage. Or it could be that they're getting nervous about radiation and want to get people out so that if it gets to the point that they NEED to do it quickly, it won't be so overwhelming. I just have no idea.
I read the news this morning about the base evacuations and immediately thought of you. I guess I didn't read clearly enough and thought that military personnel had the option of leaving too. The ambiguity of military life would drive me insane; I hate not having full information!
Whatever you decide, my thoughts are with you guys. I don't think I could leave if my husband were staying so I don't think that's a dumb decision. I don't think any of us really knows what we'd do though w/o being in your shoes. Hugs.
Hi Stumpy,
Glad to see you guys are okay. What a difficult spot to be in for you both. I'm sure you guys will make the right decision.
My cousin, his wife and their two young sons live in Nagano, which is about 160 miles southwest of the Fukushima plant. He seems to be comfortable with staying, and says he's not worried about the radiation impact (from where they live, the winds don't tend to travel that way, and they're protected by some mountain ranges). He said that they are definitely noticing some problems with gas and food shortages, even though their area was not damaged by the quake or tsunami.
I'm glad to hear you guys are even further from the epicenter and Fukushima than my cousin, which makes me hopeful that if my cousin is feeling okay (and he's an extremely smart, rational guy) that you guys will be okay too.
In any case, I'm thinking about you guys!
oh patty, i can't even imagine what you feel. i'm sorry you have to make a decision like that, but i know you and C will decide what is best for the two of you.
much love and my continued prayers
xoxo
What a hard decision. Without kids, I think I'd probably stay. Now that I have a child, I'd be on the 1st plane.
Big hugs!
The universities are starting to pull their students (cal state and stanford are requiring it) for the simple fact that unless you're helping, you're in the way consuming scarce resources.
So if it were me (and my father was military, so I have a little bit of that informing this advice) I would stay until it was clearly unsafe. I would also make a point to be helpful in whatever capacity they'd let me as a civilian.
Stay safe, and good luck. When you're back in the area I will buy you something stronger than a beer. You deserve it.
What does your DH think about the evacuation? Could your presence (and hence, safety) be of a concern to him? If you chose to stay, please remain safe! You and your DH are in my thoughts and prayers. ::hugs::
I've been thinking about you in this whole mess, but haven't had much time to post. That is such a tough position to be in. Ugh. I'm so so sorry about everything you and everyone there is going through. I have no idea what I would do either, that is such a tough decision, but will pray for you for wisdom to know what to do in this situation.
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First of all...I'm so sorry you're in this position. it sucks and I'm hoping everything turns out OK and just fine.
Second...if it were me? I'd probably stay. I guess I'd talk it over in depth with my husband first, but my view is that, if he's there in "danger", then I would want to be in "danger" with him as well, you know? Unless he was insistant upon it, I don't know that I would want to leave him there "alone".
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hmmm.... taken at face value, it makes sense to preserve valuable resources and get anyone who doesn't need to be there out of the way. but this is the military we're talking about, and as you said yourself, transparency isn't their thing. i wouldn't trust them to tell me the truth about the radiation danger. the military (and govts in general) never admit wrong doing or mistakes unless they absolutely cannot continue to deny it. the military knew agent orange was a carcinogen for years, kept using it, and denied they knew it until the bitter end. same with asbestos. i grew up in pittsburgh and was a kid when three mile island happened. the authorities lied through their teeth at the time about the level of the danger/radiation exposure. the fact that there was a partial core meltdown didn't come out for at least a decade.
i know that you don't want to leave your husband behind but if i were in your shoes, i'd get the frak out of dodge as fast as possible.
This. I know I would want to leave so badly, but I don't think I could leave DH. We're a team and if something happened to him I'd be so heartbroken, I'd want to make sure he wasn't alone.
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Ugh, that's so frustrating! Way to make an informed decision, especially since everything we're hearing seems to be that you guys would be safe where you are (well, honestly, I haven't read up on the radiation stuff recently, so what I read could be outdated). And to think the media is taking *** over here for blowing the nuclear story out of proportion. Sigh. I think an answer will come to you. I don't know if I could leave my dh either.
Where will you go if you evacuate? Home? Or do they just mean go west and stay in some shelter? Because if that were the option, no way.
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