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    • T Offline
      tfdesign
      last edited by

      Yes I'm sorry too.

      But I do think that there is an important debate here too 😄 Perhaps one that should be carried on in another thread?

      The temperature in n.Japan is -5ºc. I feel so sorry for the survivors left- it must be hell. I've already donated some money to the red cross.

      My friend Richard says that the authorities are handling the situation very well, but basic supplies like milk and noodles are a little harder to find. The powercuts haven't happened yet- which is a good sign (the papers say the opposite!)

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      • pilouP Offline
        pilou
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        All go to the worst!
        4 days losted with hiding the true!
        There is only now copters for refresh reactors and swimming pool!
        So nothing!
        Are you blind?

        Frenchy Pilou
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        • T Offline
          tfdesign
          last edited by

          Please Pilou, there is no call for rudeness. 😄

          We should talk about this in a new thread (perhaps?).

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          • pilouP Offline
            pilou
            last edited by

            Alas, it's to late for talk
            I can just advice to my Tokyo Japan and French friends to try to escape themself if they can!

            Frenchy Pilou
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              tfdesign
              last edited by

              That's cool. It is very late here too.

              I've started a new thread here;

              http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=35874

              so we can leave this thread in peace 😄

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              • honoluludesktopH Offline
                honoluludesktop
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                I was 16 at the time. My parents home (out of view) just survived on the debris line. No utilities for some time. This area, the Hilo Iron Works in the background, and further beyond was turned into a park.
                http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/images/tsunami-hilo-hawaii-1960.jpg

                By the time the current tsunami reached Hawaii, it was greatly reduced.
                [flash=640,390:2ydkdqw6]http://www.youtube.com/v/91Wh0_yNJhc?version=3[/flash:2ydkdqw6]

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                • honoluludesktopH Offline
                  honoluludesktop
                  last edited by

                  What a dilemma. If you live in Tokyo, and can leave Japan, many would consider it. The fact is, that at this time, there is not enough radiation in Tokyo to warrant leaving.

                  What people want to know is, how near is safe, if the worst happens.

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                  • pilouP Offline
                    pilou
                    last edited by

                    If the worst arrives best is go to under equateur line because winds are not very mixed between hemispheres!
                    Does this possible for an half of the Earth, that is a big question!

                    Frenchy Pilou
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                      Dave R
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                      Before and After.

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                      (THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE)

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                      • honoluludesktopH Offline
                        honoluludesktop
                        last edited by

                        The worst would be a meltdown in reactor 4; still not as bad as the US, and French atmospheric bomb test in the Pacific.

                        Dave, that is graphic!!!!! Thanks for the link.

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                          pilou
                          last edited by

                          yes our ancesters were unthinking 😢

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                            Alan Fraser
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                            That third shot in Dave's link ...Fujitsuka in Sendai. Is the scene of that horrifying aerial shot of the tsunami racing across fields gobbling up poly-tunnels. They can be seen on the extreme left of the photo.
                            If you check it out on Google Earth (it's just north of the airport) you can see the bridge approach ramp on which two truck drivers could be seen standing on top of their cabs. They had no choice...it's downhill in all directions. It was quite obvious from the outset that this was a disaster of biblical proportions.

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                            • pilouP Offline
                              pilou
                              last edited by

                              Be precise
                              Ingestion of 1/100 gram particles of Plutonium is mortal
                              Atomic's earth = 400 kilograms
                              so when it's at free air that is some dangerous!
                              (at Tchernobyl "sarcophagus" must be rebuild in few time! )
                              so understand that peole be nervous

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                                tfdesign
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                                It's a real shame that Dave's link doesn't really give an indication of the sheer amount of people who have lost their lives due to the tsunami.

                                I've also just heard on the radio that Japanese earthquake and tsunami survivors are becoming more and more sickened by how much emphasis those in the west are paying to the possibility of a yet-to-happen 'nuclear crisis', rather than paying attention to the real victims, those who have lost their children, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers complete families and neighbours as well as businesses, money, homes. Everything they had, once taken for granted, gone.

                                You can "listen again" here;

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                                BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, 19/03/2011

                                Correspondents around the world tell their stories - with Kate Adie.

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                                  Lets give the survivors a break, they "fear" for their lives.

                                  The contamination is getting worst. Who can say where this will go. How come there are NO "National/International charity rock concerts" to raise money in America? A local Hawaii TV station had a fund raiser, but where are those like "Elton", and others?

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