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Now I'm at home.
my family,my house(my miniature) is fine.
and now I contacted my friend she is ok.

Nuke plant is damaged it seems....well it isn't not much far from Tokyo. i hope not becoming Chernobyl.

anyway I'm ok now. Thx for kind reply.
And for dakkies in japan. stay safe.

Well thank goodness for your friends and family being okay.

As for the Nuclear Plant... Heard it was shut down so fingers crossed there won't be any serious issues.

All the best and stay safe to anyone affected.

Loads of awesome footage here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12716870

Its crazy though, but the first thing I said when i saw the footage in the supermarket was

"Woah working in there would be sweet! You could drink like.. twenty bottles and then just tell the boss they fell off the shelves and smashed!"

My missus said my priorities arent in order, but I was the only guy who had the peace of mind to fill my map pockets with muffins when the Taliban were mortaring the DFAC, so i think its merely a cool head under pressure.

Best of luck to my Japanese chums, chin up lads.

Matty, I think Dakka has a hero in you yet.

Our military bases and equipment were relatively undamaged which is good, makes providing aid that much easier.

The nuke plant is hopefully not going to meltdown, but some dams broke inland I heard.

its 3am here and my gf finally fell asleep

shes been glued to the radio waiting for her aunt's name to show up on the safe list

mattyrm wrote:Loads of awesome footage here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12716870

Holy McJebus! That is insane. I can see what people mean when they say it looks like CGI - just unreal.

My missus said my priorities arent in order, but I was the only guy who had the peace of mind to fill my map pockets with muffins when the Taliban were mortaring the DFAC, so i think its merely a cool head under pressure.

You never know when you will need a tactical muffin.

@Nuclear power plant people - designs have moved on (even at the time of Chernobyl) and even if the absolute worst happened you would not get Chernobyl 2: A Glow from the East.

Mrs Kyoto is back in Japan visiting her parents, she's 800 miles from the quake but I'll still feel better when I hear from her. Apparently the cell net is messed up nationwide.

I saw the comments here:

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/11/6245248-american-in-tokyo-everything-started-shaking?GT1=43001

Something like 'don't worry they're used to it'.

Yeah, tsunamis level airports every day.

Morons.

My gods the world is a mess at the moment, all my best wishes to all those caught and affected.

I don't know about anyone else, but it seems there's much less of a cognitive dissonance with this happening in Japan. Either way, hope things work out.

At least it wasn't Tokyo.

Shocking pictures and footage. I felt numb watching cars with people in them being washed off the roads.

Best wishes to all in Japan.

The worst ones I've seen are the ones with entire houses being pushed by the watr into other houses and so on and so on. It looks like the background for a Fallout game more than anything.

Stay safe over there. The news of the destruction that is coming out of Japan is horrendous.

All of my friends in Japan live down south or in Tokyo, but this is still some crazy gak. I just hope that rogue Nuclear Reactor doesn't get any worse.

My dumb of a freind keeps telling me that Tokyo is going to be nuked by that reactor, and that it fell into the ocean. Its not an old Soviet model, so it SHOULD be fine. Its probably off, but if anyone knows the condition of that reactor and can provide links it would be great.

Good Luck Dakkites! Hopefully everyone will be safe!

Happygrunt wrote:My dumb of a freind keeps telling me that Tokyo is going to be nuked by that reactor, and that it fell into the ocean. Its not an old Soviet model, so it SHOULD be fine. Its probably off, but if anyone knows the condition of that reactor and can provide links it would be great.

The plant is totally fine. The issue is that it the plant had to be shut down and didn't have power to operate the coolant system. There is a backup system in place (diesel generators), but they were damaged in the earthquake. However, there are backups to the backups, so things are under control.

It will require the main coolant system to come back online sometime soon, but that isn't a problem. There's several plans under way to get the main coolant running again.

Plus, God forbid, even if things do go terribly, it's very well contained. Worst case scenario is more Three Mile Island than Chernobyl.

No one was ever in any real danger, evacuations and the warnings were all just being extra safe.

The media is blowing things out of proportion since nuclear reactors are scary.


To the real devastation in Japan: My hearts go out to all of you. I wish I had more eloquent words, but I can't find them. Just know that the world is with you.

The nuclear reactor in question is 40 years old, it has some age which is another issue. Hopefully nothing will come of it anyways.

American forces so far are adding 'lift capacity' which means we'll be ferrying supplies, people, and debris in and out of the areas.

Offering my sympathy and hope does not seem enough in times like these. I think I speak for many when I say I wish there was something I could do to help those in need, but I'm afraid that offering my condolences is the best I can do for now. My heart goes out to all of those effected.

The damage is starting to look much worse as dawn breaks.

Five nuclear reactors are in difficulty.

300 bodies discovered so far in only one ward of Sendai.

Two trains, and a ship with 100 people on board, were washed away.

This is truly a sobering thing to see. I'm going to smack my friend in the head next week from laughing at the video of the wave going over the farmland and into the traffic

Hopefully a good amount of those missing are still living, my sympathy shall be with them.

That's horrible, Kilkrazy. Reports of incidents like that train are going to be coming in for weeks, I imagine, as people finally figure out what happened to their family and friends.

Also, SPREADING THE NEWS: From AlJazeeraEnglish: 8:52am US citizens in Japan are being urged to let officials know their whereabouts, by emailing JapanEmergencyUSC at state.gov

ChiliPowderKeg wrote:This is truly a sobering thing to see. I'm going to smack my friend in the head next week from laughing at the video of the wave going over the farmland and into the traffic

Good on you ChiliPowderKeg.

@everyone in Japan, I'll be praying for you.

To have to confront the idea of death from nature coming with such fury at an unknown hour... a humbling thought after watching video's of the wave. My sympathies and prayers for those affected.

Kilkrazy wrote:The damage is starting to look much worse as dawn breaks.

Five nuclear reactors are in difficulty.

300 bodies discovered so far in only one ward of Sendai.

Two trains, and a ship with 100 people on board, were washed away.

There is a 10 car Shinkansen (bullet train) that has vanished.

Some of the video here in Japan is out-of-this world. There was a shot of railroad tracks suspended like a telephone wire as the ground beneath had been swept away in a land slide. Now the footage on TV, on all channels, is people either freaking out or it total shock. Where I live nothing has happened, but it is a really quiet day. I think everyone is at home watching the News.

There have been tremors all day. and some big one particularly out in Nagano.

Now they are writing "water" in japanese on the roofs in the buildings where people are trapped. Crazy.

I hope the destruction and loss of life is not as large as it seems to be.

For a Chernobyl like disaster to occur at the Fukushima nuclear plants effected, would need to be of Generation One Nuclear plant types. In addition they'd need to be staffed with a skeleton crew, and all of them untrained workers from a local coal mine. In addition to THAT they'd have to be performing an incredibly stupid test to see if the turbines when shut off, would turn back on due to the momentum of the coolant through the coolant system. Almost every single Nuclear reactor in any modern nations is going to be a Generation Three nuclear reactor. I really wish news outlets would do their job and report facts instead of fear and sensationalism.

My wife is fine, she was safe in Kyoto but it was great to hear from her.

I'll be holed up at work all weekend but at least it's something important this time.

Good to hear that Mrs Kyoto is safe!

Am only getting updates from the posts here. It still chills to the marrow.
Can't imagine what the people of Japan are going through right now.

It's hard to equate with the picture of normality one sees.

Over 500 missing, I also hope that most of them are found alive or even injured.

Hopefully our crews over there are already airlifting the injured and bringing supplies into the city. There will probably be more aid on the way like a hospital ship or just a massive amount of supplies.