Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[Cyka UchuuJin]

A brave American lesbian survives Japan's earthquake with aluminum foil on her head!

if I hear of one more 'daring' or 'heroic' escape from Tokyo, i am going to throw up.

getting out of tokyo was is just a matter of getting onto a plane.

being trapped under rubble for days or in a burning building, girls escaping from sex slavery, surviving terrorist attacks...those are daring and heroic escapes.

someone needs to hit all these fucking idiots with a perspective stick.

[Coligny]

if I hear of one more 'daring' or 'heroic' escape from Tokyo, i am going to throw up.

getting out of tokyo was is just a matter of getting onto a plane.

being trapped under rubble for days or in a burning building, girls escaping from sex slavery, surviving terrorist attacks...those are daring and heroic escapes.

someone needs to hit all these fucking idiots with a perspective stick.

clickity click (firing up the video cam)

DARING

HEROIC...

tadaaaa... I got the intro sequence for "Vomit War Chronicle II Zombies Nazis Revenge (super happy Cthulluh tentacle rape fun party)"

[Greji]

girls escaping from sex slavery

Ahhhh, should I refrain from commenting on this topic?????

[Yokohammer]

Gregory Clark chimes in, toots his own horn, and makes some good points in the process.

Japanese engineers have a much deserved reputation for efficiency. How else could they have created a car industry that could defeat the U.S industry on its home ground? But the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant suggests a partial rethink is needed. When it comes to nuclear affairs, maybe they are not as brilliant as they should be. ...

The rest here ...
Nuclear meltdowns and Japanese culture

[Greji]

Gregory Clark chimes in, toots his own horn, and makes some good points in the process.


The rest here ...
Nuclear meltdowns and Japanese culture

Greg's bag should be a balloon with as much air as he continues to toot into it, but in this case, I don't think he is too far off track.

The reactors and site with stood the full force of the earthquake and tsunami quite well. It was their backup system that brought them down. Had that system been up dated to a hard shell backup site as he suggests, instead of depending on the 30-40 year old above ground design, the problems with cooling probably would never have occurred. Other countries, primarily the US have upgraded those safety features, but Japan apparently didn't get the word.

Of course that comes from the same backward viewing logic as the fact that the dog would have caught the rabbit if he hadn't have stopped to take a shit...

[omae mona]

[matsuki]

if I hear of one more 'daring' or 'heroic' escape from Tokyo, i am going to throw up.

getting out of tokyo was is just a matter of getting onto a plane.

being trapped under rubble for days or in a burning building, girls escaping from [color="Red"]sex slavery[/color], surviving terrorist attacks...those are daring and heroic escapes.

someone needs to hit all these fucking idiots with a perspective stick.

Speaking of which....did all the foreign whores follow the crowds out of Tokyo? How about the Nigerians? Going to eat (yes eat, bringing my dessert with me) in Kabukicho tonight...guess I'll find out

[Kanchou]

I've got to be honest, I really want to know what the percentage of people who were caught in the tsunami were killed. Like, the vast majority of people forced to swim for their lives? Or was it a surprisingly low percentage of enough people to total 20,000+ casualties?

Because the idea of a situation that's basically unavoidable being 95% fatal is simply terrifying. I think the average plane crash might be less lethal than that.

[American Oyaji]

I think the primary problem is that the Japanese too often think something is "good enough" without ever considering that improvements are needed or they need to keep evaulating something.

Case in point is WWII, the Japanese were on track to build the bomb, but didn't.
They relied instead on what was working and thoght that would suffice to win the war.

Japanese thinking has a blind spot where it's own so called superiority takes root.

[Coligny]

I've got to be honest, I really want to know what the percentage of people who were caught in the tsunami were killed. Like, the vast majority of people forced to swim for their lives? Or was it a surprisingly low percentage of enough people to total 20,000+ casualties?

Because the idea of a situation that's basically unavoidable being 95% fatal is simply terrifying. I think the average plane crash might be less lethal than that.

Most reports on tsunami victims states they show wounds and broken bone/ribcage corresponding to what could happen in a 50kph collision with a car. In a city environement, the tsunami didn't kill with water but by crushing people with the carried debris. Don't know if you ever had a mishap while being on the wrong side of a car being hand pushed.... same thing here but much faster and a floating car... or house... sometimes on fire...

[Bucky]

Speaking of cars,I teach a company lesson and this company is right beside the ocean. When the tsunami hit all of their cars were washed away or completely flooded. Is there any way to rescue these cars, or do they have to be scrapped. I know of two students who had just bought new cars. One a Honda Insight, the other a Nissan X-trail. I remember hearing about cars being pulled from Hurricane Katrina and being sold in other areas after they were refurbished, but some dealers weren't telling the customers about their histories.
OR could you at least use them for scrap, pull the tires, and other parts. Man there is going to be a huge demand for cars in the next little while!

Take your pick. Cars lined up at Sendai Airport. Real cream puffs.


A ton more two-weeks-after photos over here:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/pictures-japan-earthquake-two-weeks-later-20110325

[Jack]

Bucky, thanks for posting that link.

Not much else I can say.

[Coligny]

Confused, Last time I read this story it was a Japanese truck. Seems it's a Chinese one instead. Sany for the chinese, putzmeister for japan... Hard to have things sorted out...

http://www.leftlanenews.com/1-million-203-foot-industrial-fire-truck-en-route-to-fukushima-plant.html

[matsuki]

Confused, Last time I read this story it was a Japanese truck. Seems it's a Chinese one instead. Sany for the chinese, putzmeister for japan... Hard to have things sorted out...

http://www.leftlanenews.com/1-million-203-foot-industrial-fire-truck-en-route-to-fukushima-plant.html

It's LHD so probably Chinese.

[Grasshopper1]

It's LHD so probably Chinese.

I was reading somewhere that it was German.

[FG Lurker]

It's LHD so probably Chinese.

???

Most of Europe (except the UK) drives on the right (ie LHD)...

[canman]

My daughter called my wife last night from Yokohama, to ask her to buy sanitary napkins. It seems that people have gone insane and have bought out every store selling napkins and any other feminine product available. So we get up and head out to our local drug store and low and behold they are all sold out as well. Now I can understand here, as we have only started to get shipments from yesterday, as the expressway was finally opened to all traffic. But in the Kanto area.
Then my son tells me that in Shiga-ken, gas is being rationed. Customers can only buy 20 liters at a time. Is that really necessary in Western Japan. Also he said that all water was sold out and you can't find a D cell battery to save your life. But some people are selling D cell batteries on Yahoo auctions for inflated prices.

[Yokohammer]

... Also he said that all water was sold out and you can't find a D cell battery to save your life.

We sent a case of bottled water (that's from a heavily affected area of Miyagi) to a friend in Tokyo who has small children just the day before yesterday.* She couldn't find any anywhere. We could.

The stricken sending aid to the non.

I'm not sure what scares me more: natural disasters or people.

[SIZE="1"]*Yup, the takyubin cost was higher than the cost of the water.[/SIZE]

EDIT: On a related note (i.e. the scariness of people), see this: http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showpost.php?p=268632&postcount=22

[Coligny]

My daughter called my wife last night from Yokohama, to ask her to buy sanitary napkins. It seems that people have gone insane and have bought out every store selling napkins and any other feminine product available. So we get up and head out to our local drug store and low and behold they are all sold out as well. Now I can understand here, as we have only started to get shipments from yesterday, as the expressway was finally opened to all traffic. But in the Kanto area.
Then my son tells me that in Shiga-ken, gas is being rationed. Customers can only buy 20 liters at a time. Is that really necessary in Western Japan. Also he said that all water was sold out and you can't find a D cell battery to save your life. But some people are selling D cell batteries on Yahoo auctions for inflated prices.

Don't know for gas, don't seems to be a problem yet, but can confirm here, no more bottled water, no more batteries (R20 super big or LR6 medium-small like for rc controllers) and female pads are also out. local hardware store are out of "purpose-sold" quakeprofing restrain. But still shock full of all the other restrain ties, chain, iron strings, tensionner and hooks... it's stressful to be surrounded by people who will buy something only if its sticker says "for earthquake" and not use their brain to see that the same chain sold by the meter for a lower price and at a higher strengh rating will certainly do a better job...

[cstaylor]

NEWS ADVISORY: Radioactive iodine 1,250.8 times above legal limit in sea near plant

Wonder what the counts are for cesium and other contamination?

[Pearse]

We sent a case of bottled water (that's from a heavily affected area of Miyagi) to a friend in Tokyo who has small children just the day before yesterday.* She couldn't find any anywhere. We could.

The stricken sending aid to the non.

I'm not sure what scares me more: natural disasters or people.

[SIZE="1"]*Yup, the takyubin cost was higher than the cost of the water.[/SIZE]

EDIT: On a related note (i.e. the scariness of people), see this: http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showpost.php?p=268632&postcount=22

That's really nice of you, but there is something definitely strange when things like this are necessary.

[Coligny]

That's really nice of you, but there is something definitely strange when things like this are necessary.

are you new to...

ehmmm...


this planet ?...

[Doctor Stop]

Japanese engineers have a much deserved reputation for efficiency. How else could they have created a car industry that could defeat the U.S industry on its home ground?

Gregory Clark a fucking retard. Automobiles are consumer products and nuclear power plants aren't. The vehicles he should be comparing with nuclear power plants are space launch vehicles, not fucking Priuses.

[Doctor Stop]

Sany for the chinese

If "It's a Sany" it's got to be Chinese.

[FG Lurker]

My daughter called my wife last night from Yokohama, to ask her to buy sanitary napkins.

If you haven't managed to get some I can get my wife to pick some up and send them tomorrow. Just PM me.

Then my son tells me that in Shiga-ken, gas is being rationed. Customers can only buy 20 liters at a time. Is that really necessary in Western Japan.

Nothing like that happening in Osaka AFAIK. Filled the car up a few days ago.

Also he said that all water was sold out

My local Seiyu (aka Walmart) has a sign up saying they have sent all their water to Northern Japan. That might be the same with the area where your son is, and it might be the same for batteries...

[Mulboyne]

Kessenuma washed away by the tsunami:

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[canman]

The radioactivity in water in one unit of a hobbled nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan has tested 10 million times higher than normal, the plant's operator said Sunday.
Holy crap, that is quite the jump, and now I am worried about this. It seems that TEPCO and everybody else involved in this disaster really have no idea how to stop a major disaster from happening.

[matsuki]

The radioactivity in water in one unit of a hobbled nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan has tested 10 million times higher than normal, the plant's operator said Sunday.
Holy crap, that is quite the jump, and now I am worried about this. It seems that TEPCO and everybody else involved in this disaster really have no idea how to stop a major disaster from happening.

Yeah...anyone have any more info on that? Is the water contained?

[matsuki]

???

Most of Europe the world (except the UK & Japan) drive on the right (ie LHD)...

Fixed that for yah! (and Australia doesn't count)

Article said Chinese, the other suggestion was Japanese...hence the LHD/RHD determination.

[legion]

in the interests of international harmony let's all drive down the middle