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Is anyone else seeing what's happening in Japan?
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03-11-2011, 07:30 AM
CNN!
8.9 earthquake… Huge tsunami! Rudy, it could hit the Philippines Soon??? High ground… Need I say more?
03-11-2011, 08:00 AM
testcase wrote: We live next to Salt Creek beach, so I've been running around looking for my water wings. I didn't see another post at first. Here's where we are…     We're close enough to the water's edge to take a Tsunami seriously if it were to be headed here with any strength, gl
03-11-2011, 08:56 AM
Tsunami warning here in Hawaii. Kauai, where I live will be hit first (approx 3 am here) with a 5' + hi wall of water. Very glad I'm 4 miles inland. Lots of areas will be inundated, I expect, including lots of resort areas.
03-11-2011, 10:50 AM
The local news stations have given it no more than a 30 second blurb on the half hour right before weather and traffic updates.
I wonder whether they simply are incapable of featuring a major news story this early in the morning and are waiting for someone to give them instructions or whether they think that nobody in their audience cares about the event. ... The MHz Network is carrying a live Japanese news station with English translation. The footage is incredible. I guess that the counter-weights in the buildings that protect them during earthquakes keep them swaying for quite awhile after the quake hits. There are some shots that make it look like the buildings are dancing. There's one clip that they keep repeating where you can see the tsunami rushing inland carrying an astonishing amount of debris and there's one tiny car trying to out-race it. 'Don't know whether the driver made it out. One problem with the Japanese mass-transit system when a quake like this hits: The subways are full of people trying to evacuate, but the trains aren't running and the electronic signs aren't working. And aftershocks are coming fast and hard. They keep interrupting camera-feeds and interviews to wait for aftershocks to end. I'd hate to be stuck in a subway during a 6.8 aftershock. Here's a link to the list of the most recent earthquakes in the region so you can see how bad the aftershocks are: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/r..._0_eqs.php
03-11-2011, 11:06 AM
...Now there's a problem with two of their nuclear power plants. There's a press conference being held about it.
They're saying Fukushima #1 and #2 are having trouble. They have six nuclear reactors that they say have been successfully shut down, but the emergency pumps are damaged so they can't pump water in to cool two reactors. They've declared a "nuclear power emergency," but say that there has been no radioactive leak (as yet). They are now putting together an evacuation plan for the surrounding area, but are not telling people to evacuate.
03-11-2011, 12:04 PM
Local news really ticks me off, on a daily basis about bs stories, but this is a major catastrophe and they barely break from traffic to report it.
I wonder how bad this will be for Hawaii and west coast. Here is national news... In Japan 30 ft high, 8.9 earthquake Northeast coast with 19 aftershocks of 6.1 or larger, Oil refinery on fire, Largest quake in recorded history for Japan.
03-11-2011, 12:27 PM
decocritter wrote: NPR (WABE-Atlanta) is giving it major coverage. |
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