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Post by Doubar on Mar 11, 2011 15:47:17 GMT -5
This is trylu horrible indeed...and the worse is not know what could happen next...  Indeed you're right.  |
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Post by Firouz on Mar 11, 2011 19:11:37 GMT -5
I couldn't believe the devestation...I shread a few tears just watching it!
And I'm usually NOT that emotional when things like this happen....not to say that I'm cold hearted about it, but I usually like to keep a cool head until I know everything first and then if needed I can go to tears...you know?
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Post by Doubar on Mar 12, 2011 6:21:20 GMT -5
Nha, I know exactly what you mean, Firouz. But what happens there is just horrifying. And now the atomic power plant seems to be in limbo. Crap. And it's just the area where my boyfriend went to last summer. He's got many friends there!  |
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Post by Firouz on Mar 12, 2011 12:56:03 GMT -5
I hope he gets an email or something soon from them.
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Post by Doubar on Mar 12, 2011 13:03:02 GMT -5
Well, two or three of them posted on facebook this night but from the major part of his friends he's got no news yet. |
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Post by Sinbad on Mar 12, 2011 13:36:24 GMT -5
Oh dear. I really hope he hears from them soon and that they are okay This sounds an awful lot like Tschernobyl all over again... |
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Post by Doubar on Mar 12, 2011 13:43:23 GMT -5
Thanx. We hope so, too. And yeah, sounds awful like that indeed. Lets just hope it will not end up like it did back there. |
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Post by Maeve on Mar 12, 2011 13:46:07 GMT -5
@doubar: I as well really hope he gets some news from them soon, honey. *hugs comfortingly* Goodness, this is yet again one big catastrophe. Clips and images of the disaster were the first things I saw when I turned the TV on yesterday morning. I literally choked up my orange juice. Torrential waves of water crashing down inland with cars floating everywhere...It was really an apocalyptic scenery. My heart goes out to all the victims and families who've lost someone they loved, and my prayers fly to all the people dealing with the resulting chaos. |
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Post by Firouz on Mar 12, 2011 16:34:11 GMT -5
The nuclear power plant had some kind of accident. Sea water is cooling the reactors, but there was a big plumb of smoke/ash...I don't know what it truly was.
I hope things get better and not worse...
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Post by Firouz on Mar 13, 2011 12:13:21 GMT -5
Near-freezing temperatures compounded the misery of survivors along hundreds of miles (kilometers) of the northeastern coast battered by the tsunami that smashed inland with breathtaking fury. Rescuers pulled bodies from mud-covered jumbles of wrecked houses, shattered tree trunks, twisted cars and tangled power lines while survivors examined the ruined remains. One rare bit of good news was the rescue of a 60-year-old man swept away by the tsunami who clung to the roof of his house for two days until a military vessel spotted him waving a red cloth about 10 miles (15 kilometers) offshore. The death toll surged because of a report from Miyagi, one of the three hardest hit states. The police chief told disaster relief officials more than 10,000 people were killed, police spokesman Go Sugawara told The Associated Press. That was an estimate — only 400 people have been confirmed dead in Miyagi, which has a population of 2.3 million. According to officials, more than 1,400 people were confirmed dead — including 200 people whose bodies were found Sunday along the coast — and more than 1,000 were missing in Friday's disasters. Another 1,700 were injured. For Japan, one of the world's leading economies with ultramodern infrastructure, the disasters plunged ordinary life into nearly unimaginable deprivation. Hundreds of thousands of hungry survivors huddled in darkened emergency centers that were cut off from rescuers, aid and electricity. At least 1.4 million households had gone without water since the quake struck and some 1.9 million households were without electricity. While the government doubled the number of soldiers deployed in the aid effort to 100,000 and sent 120,000 blankets, 120,000 bottles of water and 29,000 gallons (110,000 liters) of gasoline plus food to the affected areas, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said electricity would take days to restore. In the meantime, he said, electricity would be rationed with rolling blackouts to several cities, including Tokyo. "This is Japan's most severe crisis since the war ended 65 years ago," Kan told reporters, adding that Japan's future would be decided by its response. ********************* This is terrible! I hope things begin to get better even as I know things will get worse before it gets better. |
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Post by Doubar on Mar 13, 2011 14:14:38 GMT -5
Rumina: Thank you, dear. *hugs back* @firouz: Yeah, I heard that all in the news, too. It's just horrible. Let's just hope that this country is spared at least a nuclear desaster.
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Post by Firouz on Mar 13, 2011 16:18:15 GMT -5
Yea, that would be, not only terrible, but horrible ironic too... ....meaning that they would be the only country to suffer from nuclear explosions...IE Hiroshima and Nagasaki and now this.... |
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Post by Kriss on Mar 24, 2011 10:22:28 GMT -5
Earth Hour 2011: It's time to go beyond the hourAt 8:30 PM on Saturday 26th March 2011, lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit to actions that go beyond the hour. With Earth Hour almost upon us, our thoughts are with the people of Japan during this incredibly challenging and sad time for their country. 
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Post by Sinbad on Mar 25, 2011 15:09:13 GMT -5
Wow, this is cool didn´t even know there was something like that.
But what time zone is 8.30? Or is it kind of like a wave around the globe as in each time zone´s 8.30?
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Post by Kriss on Mar 25, 2011 15:16:12 GMT -5
Nili, it's for our time zone  You didn't know? It has taken place for a few years already  |
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