8.9 quake hits Japan

[ace_dl]

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Some useful information on that video ... Nuclear reactor for Dummies
Our thoughts and prayers to people suffering in Japan

[Jenks]

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http://www.odemagazine.com/blogs/readers_blog/24755/a_letter_from_sendai

A letter from Sendai

Things here in Sendai have been rather surreal. But I am very blessed to have wonderful friends who are helping me a lot. Since my shack is even more worthy of that name, I am now staying at a friend's home. We share supplies like water, food and a kerosene heater. We sleep lined up in one room, eat by candlelight, share stories. It is warm, friendly, and beautiful.

During the day we help each other clean up the mess in our homes. People sit in their cars, looking at news on their navigation screens, or line up to get drinking water when a source is open. If someone has water running in their home, they put out a sign so people can come to fill up their jugs and buckets.

It's utterly amazingly that where I am there has been no looting, no pushing in lines. People leave their front door open, as it is safer when an earthquake strikes. People keep saying, "Oh, this is how it used to be in the old days when everyone helped one another."

Quakes keep coming. Last night they struck about every 15 minutes. Sirens are constant and helicopters pass overhead often.

We got water for a few hours in our homes last night, and now it is for half a day. Electricity came on this afternoon. Gas has not yet come on. But all of this is by area. Some people have these things, others do not. No one has washed for several days. We feel grubby, but there are so much more important concerns than that for us now. I love this peeling away of non-essentials. Living fully on the level of instinct, of intuition, of caring, of what is needed for survival, not just of me, but of the entire group.

There are strange parallel universes happening. Houses a mess in some places, yet then a house with futons or laundry out drying in the sun. People lining up for water and food, and yet a few people out walking their dogs. All happening at the same time.

Other unexpected touches of beauty are first, the silence at night. No cars. No one out on the streets. And the heavens at night are scattered with stars. I usually can see about two, but now the whole sky is filled. The mountains are Sendai are solid and with the crisp air we can see them silhouetted against the sky magnificently.
And the Japanese themselves are so wonderful. I come back to my shack to check on it each day, now to send this e-mail since the electricity is on, and I find food and water left in my entranceway. I have no idea from whom, but it is there. Old men in green hats go from door to door checking to see if everyone is OK. People talk to complete strangers asking if they need help. I see no signs of fear. Resignation, yes, but fear or panic, no.
They tell us we can expect aftershocks, and even other major quakes, for another month or more. And we are getting constant tremors, rolls, shaking, rumbling. I am blessed in that I live in a part of Sendai that is a bit elevated, a bit more solid than other parts. So, so far this area is better off than others. Last night my friend's husband came in from the country, bringing food and water. Blessed again.

Somehow at this time I realize from direct experience that there is indeed an enormous Cosmic evolutionary step that is occurring all over the world right at this moment. And somehow as I experience the events happening now in Japan, I can feel my heart opening very wide. My brother asked me if I felt so small because of all that is happening. I don't. Rather, I feel as part of something happening that much larger than myself. This wave of birthing (worldwide) is hard, and yet magnificent.

Thank you again for your care and Love of me,

With Love in return, to you all,

Anne

[Garrick]

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^ nice read. glimpse of hope in a dire situation.... love to hear it.

[Jenks]

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^ nice read. glimpse of hope in a dire situation.... love to hear it.

Yep. Americans could learn a few things from the Japanese.

[res0nat0r]

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Yes, what really I think shows the mindset here vs. there is all of the things we saw in New Orleans in Katrina. And that was a disaster people knew of in advance.

[Kat]

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Yep. Americans could learn a few things from the Japanese.

the whole world could

thank you for sharing that!!

[DIDI]

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Yep. Americans could learn a few things from the Japanese.

I think everyone could learn from this ! Thank you for the letter from Sendai

[DancingQueen]

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Thank you for sharing that Jenks....very moving. I hope that if I am ever faced with such a trying time the people around me would be as kind and caring

[feather]

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I've been following this blog and recently it's been showing the everyday life in Japan ... certainly not the panic and exodus that Western news is reporting ...

http://www.tokyotimes.org/

[feather]

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This blog too, usually about marketing and trends, have been reporting life as usual ...

http://www.japantrends.com/

The Japanese have always struck me as a resilient bunch, their solidarity cannot be beat ... it's a shame there is so much sensationalistic, opportunistic crap when these people are trying to hold it together and get on with it.

We are such a deplorable race.

[DIDI]

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^^ Hear Hear !!!

[feather]

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[DIDI]

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Why is it that animal stories seem to upset me more than human stories, or at least as much .

[feather]

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They are the faceless 50, the unnamed operators who stayed behind. They have volunteered, or been assigned, to pump seawater on dangerously exposed nuclear fuel, already thought to be partly melting and spewing radioactive material, to prevent full meltdowns that could throw thousands of tons of radioactive dust high into the air and imperil millions of their compatriots.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16workers.html?_r=1

[runningman]

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because you have been dehumanized Didi. It is a part of the brainwashing that humans are expendable. I'm not saying it as a negative to you directly but most share your feeling because we have been raised that way.

We have grown up to expect humans dying horrible deaths because we hear it all the time on the news. But we don't expect dogs or lovable animals to die horrible deaths.



I find this Fukushima 50 story quite annoying because it took thousands of people to slow down Chernobyl.