I'm surprised: Japan's Earthquake/tsunami: No comments?

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I'm surprised: Japan's Earthquake/tsunami: No comments?

It's all that I've been watching on TV for the past two days.

It's as if the r.f.c members have their heads in the sand.

What's wrong with you folks? This is a world catastrophe!

Don't you care?

Are you more worried about burnt toast?

Andy
 
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:32:11 -0800 (PST), lainie
wrote:


He gets that way. Roll with it.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
In article ,
"I'm back." wrote:



Best comment I've heard so far is "What, did the Mayans forget to carry
the two-headed leopard, or something?"

Miche

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Electricians do it in three phases
 
In article ,
"Nancy Young" wrote:


It was lunchtime on a weekday. Not as many people were in them as there
otherwise might have been. However, a lot of people who were outside
were killed or injured by falling masonry.

Miche

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Electricians do it in three phases
 
Portland wrote:


It's too much. I just keep watching all the images and it's hard
to grasp how big this is. I called my Japanese stepmother to see
how she was taking it, luckily her people are in Tokyo. I got a
perspective on how far the big devastation is from there, it's hard
to get a sense just from looking at a map. I hope they can get this
nuclear reactor business under control and soon.

Sorry I didn't inform the newsgroup of my concern, Andy.

nancy
 
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Six reactors have failed so far, and reactor number one has partially
melted down. They are pumping seawater into the reactor to cool it
down. I would say it is much worse than Three Mile Island. It hasn't
quite gotten to Chernobyl proportions yet, but it could get there,
especially if one of the other reactors has a meltdown also, or if the
situation with reactor number one gets worse.
 
On 2011-03-12, Andy wrote:


Dang! Get bitched at for not being on-topic, now get bitched at for
being on-topic. What are you, my mother? ;)

Kidding aside, I don't have TV, but been watching streaming vids on
the web. It's almost beyond belief. The damn earthquake goes on for
over an uninterupted one and a half minutes. Unbelievable! And the sky
shots of that tsunami jest rolling over the countryside for what seems
like miles sweeping away everything in its path just staggers the mind.
Who could survive such a thing? It's like a giant blender full of
houses and cars and trees. Human bodies are no match for that kinda
power and would be snuffed in a heartbeat. It's heartbreaking.

Perhaps one reason no one is talking about it is cuz the enormity and
horror of such a thing leaves one almost speechless.

http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html
http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html

nb
 
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:43:44 -0800 (PST), "Michael O'Connor"
wrote:


Oh, god. That's horrible.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
sf wrote:




It truly is. It's a situation where both the electric grid lost
power, and any backup generators were flooded out. Without continuous
forced cooling a reactor melts. This is a different scenario than either
TMI or Chernobyl, which were mostly procedural and operator error rather
than total cooling failure.


Steve
 
On 3/12/2011 11:00 PM, Steve Pope wrote:

The 'fail safes' failed! Can't get worse than that! So much for
redundancy!

Sky

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Ultimate Kitchen Rule -- Cook's Choice!!
 
Andy wrote:

We aren't talking about it much yet, because we aren't sure what to do
yet. With disasters in third world countries it's pretty obvious that
the basic need is for immediate food and shelter, but in a highly
developed country like Japan it's not clear what they actually need
right now. I'm sure in a few days we'll have a better idea of what we
may be able to do to help.
 
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 06:22:49 -0600, Andy wrote:


It's past, are you going to agonize over spilled milk?
Earthquakes fall under the catagory of "Shit Happens".
What do you want folks to say? Were I religious I could
say god is still evening the score for Pearl Harbor.
 
notbob wrote:

sky
mind.


nb,

There's a lot to be alarmed about!

I timed out and watched "The X-Files" for some comic relief. (?)

Didn't really work.

Best,

Andy
 
On 3/12/2011 9:51 AM, Pete C. wrote:

Initial reaction was muted but it becomes more and more dreadful as the
reported death toll rises as does the news of damaged nuclear power
stations. I don't know what to do about it but I actually have friends
at Sendai (Tohoku) University.

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James Silverton, Potomac

I'm "not"
[email protected]
 
Sky wrote:




What's more, there are a total of ten nukes at the two sites in
Fukushima. Three were fortunately powered down when the earthquake
happened but they are having issues with all of the other seven.

It will be a miracle if they get all seven under control without a
large scale disaster.


Steve
 
"Pete C." wrote:



Pete C,

Right!

From what's been shown on TV, I'm guessing it will take a few years to
measure the disaster cost and loss of life.

Andy
 
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:11:41 -0600, Andy wrote:



It took just short of three minutes to completely wipe out one coastal city.
With the water levels up to the fourth floor on many buildings left standing,
the ones that weren't were washed away in the initial wave.
My niece is in South Korea next door, we were watching closely but she said
that they knew nothing about it until the news reports started to come in.
 
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