Dear All - your thoughts and prayers are asked for all my friends and colleagues in and around Tokyo and all others in Japan, after the terrible earthquake and tsunami.
tac
My thoughts are certainly with those hit by such a catastrophe.
Is Zubi OK?
My thoughts are also with those on the Japanese Islands any other parts in the Pacific Ocean which may become affected. The catastrophe is beyond description for me.
Zubi called a while back - he is OK, but Tokyo is filled with millions of people who can’t get home. The metro is shut and all of JR is also closed down. Everybody I know lives well out of town, some over fifty miles away.
Police reports now say over 300 bodies have so far been found in Sendai - the town where the front of the tsunami came ashore.
tac
It really brings home how those of us could get hit. We live 10-15 miles from the San Andreas Fault and we’re overdue. My thoughts are with them.
The images and videos coming thru are truely terrifying
My dear friend and co-worker Tadahiro Watanabe took four hours to walk home but he has just got there. His family are shaken but fine. I have not heard from anybody else.
tac
I certainly do feel sympathy for all those poor people in harm’s way due to the earthquake in Japan. There are more quakes reportedly going on even now as I type this. I do pray for them all.
On the home front: It is reported that four people have been swept out to sea at Crescent City, California (about 80 miles south of us) as well as numerous boats and homes destroyed or damaged by tsunami. No damage or injuries here at Port Orford although the tsunami warning siren has been blaring. I don’t know about the dock area however except that a seven or eight foot surge probably wouldn’t be big enough to sweep over the top of it.
Richard and Helen - very glad to hear that you are OK there in PO. You may have seen on PBS that there actually people and their children walking the beach at Seaside while the water was receding just before the surge! I found it hard to believe my eye-trumpets!
Nice to see, also, that the little lighthouse has its lights operation again…ig says.
An othe of my work colleagues is down in Ise City right now, and is having a heck of a job trying to get home to Tokyo - which is now in early saturday morning, counting the cost.
A city of 28,000 inhabitants has been washed away.
Four trains are missing.
A boat-load of almost a hundred oil-workers has simply disappeared.
The toll will be enormous.
Poor Japan.
You take care down there.
tac
The reports are simply staggering.
Pretty near incomprehensible.
My prayers go out to all of the unfortunate people in Japan.
They really got the triple whammy.
I was almost stunned watching the news about the Quake, tsunami, and then the power plant problems.
David