As most people know, Japan was hit by a devastating Earthquake, and I just wanted to say my thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Japan.
In this day and age, such things are never isolated, and an event such as this really brings it home. I work in the Nuclear Power Industry and the repercussions of the earthquake at the Fukushima Nuclear facility are being felt all the way around the world to the eastern seaboard of the US.
Best wishes to the people of Japan, and especially to the people of TEPCO who are dealing with the aftermath of such an earthquake.
Prayers and well wishes for Japan...
Started by Gothneo, Mar 11 2011 05:28 PM
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Posted 11 March 2011 - 05:28 PM
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Posted 11 March 2011 - 06:33 PM
I saw footage on tv of the damage in Japan, it looks awful. We should count our blessings everyday that we live in safety and health and never take it for granted.
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Posted 11 March 2011 - 07:33 PM
+1. Could just as easily happen to us in SoCal.
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Posted 11 March 2011 - 09:32 PM
My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Japan as well as the people who will be affected by the Tsumanis.
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Posted 11 March 2011 - 11:27 PM
I couldn't believe the footage I woke up to on TV today.
All I can give are my thoughts, well wishes, and sympathy for the whole population of Japan. Judging by the scale of the devestation, there won't be a family in that country that isn't affected.
Ireland's rolling news channel was given over, most of the day, to carrying NHK World, a Japanese rolling news channel with English language bulletins on the half hour. My heart went out to the presenter, He was barely keeping it together as he read out the casualty reports coming in to him.
5 primary school kids killed when the corridor they were running through to shelter collapsed. 2 Factory workers killed when they breathed noxious fumes from a cracked pipe carrying industrial chemicals... I don't think I'll ever forget those individual deaths. Then there's the apocalyptic footage of tar-like roiling walls of debris consuming rows of polytunnel farmland, pushing boats, cars and bodies kilometers inland.
What a f****** tragedy.
All I can give are my thoughts, well wishes, and sympathy for the whole population of Japan. Judging by the scale of the devestation, there won't be a family in that country that isn't affected.
Ireland's rolling news channel was given over, most of the day, to carrying NHK World, a Japanese rolling news channel with English language bulletins on the half hour. My heart went out to the presenter, He was barely keeping it together as he read out the casualty reports coming in to him.
5 primary school kids killed when the corridor they were running through to shelter collapsed. 2 Factory workers killed when they breathed noxious fumes from a cracked pipe carrying industrial chemicals... I don't think I'll ever forget those individual deaths. Then there's the apocalyptic footage of tar-like roiling walls of debris consuming rows of polytunnel farmland, pushing boats, cars and bodies kilometers inland.
What a f****** tragedy.
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Posted 14 March 2011 - 10:21 AM
I was worried; a Japanese colleague of my father's lives near Tokyo. Fortunately we found out that Kiyoshi and his family are alive and well - though rather worried for the future, as you can imagine.
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Posted 14 March 2011 - 10:43 AM
Definitely puts life and some of its frivolities into perspective. Hopefully this tragedy will help bring the world a little closer in the end 
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