Honshu, Japan Earthquake & Tsunami - March 2011 (19 Viewers)

[Bjerknes]

BREAKING NEWS: Hydrogen explosion occurs at Fukushima No. 4 reactor (11:53)

BREAKING NEWS: Fire at No.4 reactor apparently put out: Tokyo Electric (12:04)


From Kyodo

 

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[Bjerknes]

Nikkei futures now down 14%, Topix index apparently halted, US equity futures down about 3% now... this is fucking BAD.

There won't be any support in the market until the reactors are under control.

 

[Bjerknes]

CNBC World just reported radiation has reached Tokyo albeit in minuscule amounts...

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

OH FUCK!

 

[swag]

OH FUCK!

What? You left the Nazi oven on?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Yeah, but don't tell anyone.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Reuters FLASH: Japan nuclear safety agency: Two 8-metre holes in wall of Fukushima No.4 outer building after blast

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

BBC Breaking News by JackHaddad
Accident at #Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant upgraded to level six crisis, on scale of seven, say French officials - AFP

 

[Bjerknes]

Jack works for the BBC now?

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Didn't see that. He must've retweeted the post from BBC.

 

[Bjerknes]

Buildings shaking in Tokyo, 6.2 quake reported - CNBC

 

[Gagi]

I'm booking a flight,i will either get superpowers

How would you call yourself?

You can't be a global bad ass without solid nickname.

 

[Bozi]

Mr Sheen...no not the furniture polish. i would have the capacity to absorb all manner of drugs that would kill an average person

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Look, if Japanese people want to live on the shore of an earthquake zone and go crazy when a fuckin' tsunami hits, fine.

But anyone that gets bent out of shape because of an earthquake in San Francisco or Japan, a tornado in Kansas, a hurricane in Florida, or a flood in Holland is a clown.

You accept the risk by living in those areas and if you say, "HOLY SHIT, we never saw this coming!" Well, then you probably also have an extra copy of the 21st chromosome.

 

[JuveJay]

That's true, although Japanese people are always expecting 'the big one', it doesn't make it less of a tragedy. Tsunami is of course a Japanese word, they know all about them and what they can do. And as most of the country is mountainous a large amount of the population will always be on the coast.

There are measures they can take to reduce the loss of property and human life, but that's a choice for the government to make in future. This could strike anywhere, and currently there is nothing to break up the energy of tsunami or give people more than a desperate chance.

 

[Enron]

"Living" leads to an almost certainty of death.

 

[Bjerknes]

Look, if Japanese people want to live on the shore of an earthquake zone and go crazy when a fuckin' tsunami hits, fine.

To be fair, the Japanese people are handling this disaster pretty well. They accept the risk and accept that something like this has happened to them. They're not "going crazy".

If this happened to say, New Orleans, half the city would be screaming woe is us and start looting all the stores and shoppes around town.

Oh wait, that already happened.

 

[swag]

Look, if Japanese people want to live on the shore of an earthquake zone and go crazy when a fuckin' tsunami hits, fine.

But anyone that gets bent out of shape because of an earthquake in San Francisco or Japan, a tornado in Kansas, a hurricane in Florida, or a flood in Holland is a clown.

You accept the risk by living in those areas and if you say, "HOLY SHIT, we never saw this coming!" Well, then you probably also have an extra copy of the 21st chromosome.

That's clueless though, Burke. There's a reason human civilizations throughout time have been centered around tsunami-prone shorelines versus the inland Himalayas. Or why people found the land much more hospitable for food, farming, and trade by living along the Ring of Fire, etc. It's not like any civilization made these decisions and said, "Oh, disasters will never happen here. This is safe. I will set up a civilization next to this volcano." Disasters can happen just about anywhere and the concept of any place "safe" is generally uninhabitable by most standards.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

To be fair, the Japanese people are handling this disaster pretty well. They accept the risk and accept that something like this has happened to them. They're not "going crazy".

If this happened to say, New Orleans, half the city would be screaming woe is us and start looting all the stores and shoppes around town.

Oh wait, that already happened.

Don't you deliberately make an archaic spelling of shop at me, sir!

 

[Enron]

To be fair, the Japanese people are handling this disaster pretty well. They accept the risk and accept that something like this has happened to them. They're not "going crazy".

If this happened to say, New Orleans, half the city would be screaming woe is us and start looting all the stores and shoppes around town.

Oh wait, that already happened.

That's a pretty silly statement.

New Orleans isn't really a case of people from the city screaming "woe is me", it was more of a national reaction than anything. That city got fucked and a lot of people knew it. People that didn't want to live in New Orleans left, and those that wanted to rebuild stayed. As for the people who stayed, there is nothing wrong with looking to pick their city back up. It's their right. When we talk about Hurricane Katrina we aren't just speaking of New Orleans, it was an event that dealt with a large part of the Gulf Coast that was grossly mismanaged in a time of need.

That's not to say that other American cities haven't been screwed over, but none have been done so instantly. This is why people sympathize with New Orleans over other cities that have experienced strife over a longer period of time, like Detroit or Baltimore. This will likely be the same reaction once things settle down in Japan. Get ready for the Bono's of the world to start asking for you to write checks, expect the US and other nations to be expected to start some sort of rebuilding plan. Right now the Japanese are pulling people out of rubble and determining whether or not they have a nuclear disaster on their hands. Once things settle down, expect the Japanese people to accept these charities and maybe even ask for assistance to rebuild their coastal towns and fishing villages exactly where they were before the earthquake. If you think Japan won't become another Gulf Coast, you're wrong, it's going to be bigger.