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BigInJapan wrote:it seems like this one is passing us by...
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Things are just starting to kick in here on the east side of Tokyo. Though nothing too serious yet.
chokonen888 wrote:For a cuntry with so many typhoons, why does Japan always seem so ill prepared when they hit? My neighborhood was a fucking disaster zone last night.
yanpa wrote:chokonen888 wrote:For a cuntry with so many typhoons, why does Japan always seem so ill prepared when they hit? My neighborhood was a fucking disaster zone last night.
Disaster zone? In what way? I ask 'cos I'm not so far from you and the most disastrous thing I've seen are some dead umbrellas and an abandoned mamachari lying on its side with one wheel partially sticking out into the public road.
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:With all due respect, there are limits to how much preparation can go into approaching a disaster...if we could prepare well, then we wouldn't have disasters.
Coligny wrote:Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:With all due respect, there are limits to how much preparation can go into approaching a disaster...if we could prepare well, then we wouldn't have disasters.
japanese approach seems:
It happens every years, so shoganai (powerlines... river that at least once a year overflow their bed, and on and on)
Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:How much better prepared can you get than shoganai? It's the prison rape scenario...you know it's coming, there aint gonna be no lube, you don't know when it's gonna come but you're staying close enough to bite the pillow to allow you to quietly endure the pain once it has come....
chokonen888 wrote:Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:How much better prepared can you get than shoganai? It's the prison rape scenario...you know it's coming, there aint gonna be no lube, you don't know when it's gonna come but you're staying close enough to bite the pillow to allow you to quietly endure the pain once it has come....
I was referring to all the building codes and earthquake safety laws that passed yet never get enforced. This cuntry seems to have the biggest problem (in so many ways) with doing shit the looks good on the surface but is useless when it comes to actually having to perform.
Unsafe as houses
Ever since the March 2011 earthquake, Tokyo has been reassessing its disaster preparedness policies with mixed results. Though the residents of the city have definitely become more knowledgeable about their vulnerability and what needs to be done to save as many lives as possible in the event of a major quake, not much, in fact, has been done, owing mainly to the usual issues involving private property versus public responsibility. Tens of thousands of old wooden houses, packed tightly together in some neighborhoods, are basically kindling for the inevitable conflagrations that will start after an earthquake hits. Since the local government doesn’t feel it can force these people to move or rebuild their houses (which would, in accordance with zoning laws that have gone into effect since they were originally built, force them to construct smaller abodes then they already occupy) their dire prediction falls on deaf ears. Libertarians and individuals with fond feelings about Tokyo’s uniquely quaint neighborhoods condemn any sort of regulatory move that would change the character of those neighborhoods, but it’s clear that these neighborhoods, as well as the people who live in them, won’t survive a big quake. They didn’t survive the 1923 quake, and the situation isn’t really that much different.
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chokonen888 wrote:I was referring to all the building codes and earthquake safety laws that passed yet never get enforced.
yanpa wrote:chokonen888 wrote:Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:How much better prepared can you get than shoganai? It's the prison rape scenario...you know it's coming, there aint gonna be no lube, you don't know when it's gonna come but you're staying close enough to bite the pillow to allow you to quietly endure the pain once it has come....
I was referring to all the building codes and earthquake safety laws that passed yet never get enforced. This cuntry seems to have the biggest problem (in so many ways) with doing shit the looks good on the surface but is useless when it comes to actually having to perform.
Here's something to reassure you on that frontUnsafe as houses
Ever since the March 2011 earthquake, Tokyo has been reassessing its disaster preparedness policies with mixed results. Though the residents of the city have definitely become more knowledgeable about their vulnerability and what needs to be done to save as many lives as possible in the event of a major quake, not much, in fact, has been done, owing mainly to the usual issues involving private property versus public responsibility. Tens of thousands of old wooden houses, packed tightly together in some neighborhoods, are basically kindling for the inevitable conflagrations that will start after an earthquake hits. Since the local government doesn’t feel it can force these people to move or rebuild their houses (which would, in accordance with zoning laws that have gone into effect since they were originally built, force them to construct smaller abodes then they already occupy) their dire prediction falls on deaf ears. Libertarians and individuals with fond feelings about Tokyo’s uniquely quaint neighborhoods condemn any sort of regulatory move that would change the character of those neighborhoods, but it’s clear that these neighborhoods, as well as the people who live in them, won’t survive a big quake. They didn’t survive the 1923 quake, and the situation isn’t really that much different.
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chokonen888 wrote:Haha, I just read that before I posted but I am getting sick of Japanese telling me the reason why Japanese homes are "superior" is because they are soooooo earthquake safe. Drinkin' the Green Tea flavored Kool-Aid much?
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