Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

by **vitellus** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:49 pm

About Urayasu - I was just talking today to someone who was in Urayasu on business when the earthquake struck. He told me that a crack opened in the street and water came out, and a 7/11 partially sunk into the ground. I found it hard to believe since it is not that far from Tokyo but I didn't know that it was also on reclaimed land and prone to liquefaction....

by **FG Lurker** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:56 pm

vitellus wrote:About Urayasu - I was just talking today to someone who was in Urayasu on business when the earthquake struck. He told me that a crack opened in the street and water came out, and a 7/11 partially sunk into the ground. I found it hard to believe since it is not that far from Tokyo but I didn't know that it was also on reclaimed land and prone to liquefaction....

Some parts of Urayasu are on reclaimed land and other parts are on "real" land. The parts on real land were fine -- no damage to speak of and certainly no issues with not having water or gas.

The parts on reclaimed land however are fucked. Houses partially sunk and at odd angles, roads all busted up, liquefaction everywhere (huge mud flows), power poles have sunk into the ground (sometimes several meters straight down), no water, no gas... It's nothing compared to what happened up north but it's scary to think how bad it will be when a strong quake strikes closer to Tokyo.

by **ichigo partygirl** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:57 pm

via Time Out Tokyo

(Apologies if this has been posted - i haven't seen it yet.)

by **AssKissinger** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:04 pm

Samurai_Jerk wrote:U.S. shows growing alarm over Japan nuclear crisis

The State Department said the United States has chartered aircraft to help Americans leave Japan and had authorized the voluntary departure of family members of diplomatic staff in Tokyo, Nagoya and Yokohama -- about 600 people

I'm actually quite shocked by that.

by **vitellus** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:26 pm

So far no one has mentioned the guerrilla blackout rumored to strike central Tokyo this evening. Message posted on Facebook:

"Important - NON scheduled blackout may occur tonight
Due to cold weather and high usage of power, NON schedule blackouts in may occur in Tokyo area today"

by **Coligny** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:27 pm

AssKissinger wrote:I'm actually quite shocked by that.

Well... every time they waited it end up quite badly...

The less tourists... the better...

by **Taka-Okami** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:56 pm

FG Lurker wrote:Yeah, I have a friend with a house at an odd angle in Shin Urayasu... Lots of liquefaction changes in the level of the ground. It's quite a mess.

My house in Osaka isn't on reclaimed land but the land is definitely softer than I would like. I hope to move within the next couple of years and wherever I end up building it will be on top of bedrock...

Are you sitting on engineered soil or natural? Do you have access to the geotech report? If your just moving because your worried about one factor then it would definately be cheaper to get expert advice about it.

by **Coligny** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:03 pm

In other news, Hamaoka power staion, is like totally safer, we swears...

http://yfrog.com/3uxokz

Link goes to keitai movie of tv broadcast. (with few swear words in french... not mine)

by **Mike Oxlong** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:06 pm

Skype offering assistance to customers in Japan...

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/03/japan.html

Just got my voucher in the email.

by **Coligny** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:06 pm

Explanation of the storage of spend fuel rod in Fukushima...

On top of the reactor...

BRILLIANT...

http://yfrog.com/2p2g2z

/speechless

by **cstaylor** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:19 pm

The biggest problem is that they are stored together. With enough space or shielding between them, they wouldn't be so active.

The cooling pool really should be in another location though.

by **Coligny** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:23 pm

cstaylor wrote:The biggest problem is that they are stored together. With enough space or shielding between them, they wouldn't be so active.

The cooling pool really should be in another location though.

Yeah but the couscoussiere concept applied to a nuke plant is over bad engineering... it's downright evil....
GIS for couscoussiere:

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:27 pm

AssKissinger wrote:I'm actually quite shocked by that.

Yeah, it makes me feel a little less "French" for having left.

by **Crystal Skull** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:30 pm

Training for new staff/teachers begins next week...wonder if they will all be there?

by **Yokohammer** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:32 pm

This just on the news:

The water canon attempt has failed. The water failed to reach the target and the intrepid police team had to retreat (aka "run away") due to the high radiation levels.

They might as well just throw water balloons at the thing from a couple of kilometers away.

EDIT: I keep hearing "due to safety concerns we can't allow our people to get too close to the reactor." In my mind that translates as "due to safety concerns we're going to allow the reactors to blow and irradiate the entire fucking country for generations to come". Nice safety country thinking there.

by **FG Lurker** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:33 pm

[quote="Samurai_Jerk"]Yeah, it makes me feel a little less "French" for having left. ]
Nah, it just makes the rest of the Americans more French for panicking and running away.

by **cstaylor** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:38 pm

Yokohammer wrote:They might as well just throw water balloons at the thing from a couple of kilometers away.

Yokohammer for Prime Minister!

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:40 pm

FG Lurker wrote:Nah, it just makes the rest of the Americans more French for panicking and running away.

Big talk from someone all the way over in Kansai. :hehe:

by **IkemenTommy** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:47 pm

FG Lurker wrote:The parts on reclaimed land however are fucked. Houses partially sunk and at odd angles, roads all busted up, liquefaction everywhere (huge mud flows), power poles have sunk into the ground (sometimes several meters straight down), no water, no gas... It's nothing compared to what happened up north but it's scary to think how bad it will be when a strong quake strikes closer to Tokyo.

People had predicted that for years and it wasn't matter of if but when the big one hit. Now all those people are stuck paying 30 year loans on property homes worth dick.

I heard Disney JP stocks took a dive since Friday but I don't know if that has anything to do with being on the same reclaimed land.

by **Taka-Okami** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:47 pm

Yokohammer wrote:This just on the news:

The water canon attempt has failed. The water failed to reach the target and the intrepid police team had to retreat (aka "run away") due to the high radiation levels.

They might as well just throw water balloons at the thing from a couple of kilometers away.

EDIT: I keep hearing "due to safety concerns we can't allow our people to get too close to the reactor." In my mind that translates as "due to safety concerns we're going to allow the reactors to blow and irradiate the entire fucking country for generations to come". Nice safety country thinking there.

They could just throw in cannisters of liquid nitorgen :grin:

by **Coligny** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:49 pm

[quote="Samurai_Jerk"]Yeah, it makes me feel a little less "French" for having left. ]

Neener neener you'z Frenchier than me...

Repeat aftur me:

frrrrRRRRROOOOOmage...

MahDEUHmouaZeLLLE...

Now harder but most necessary:

Voullez coucher avec moua ce soir ?

by **Coligny** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:55 pm

Yokohammer wrote:EDIT: I keep hearing "due to safety concerns we can't allow our people to get too close to the reactor." In my mind that translates as "due to safety concerns we're going to allow the reactors to blow and irradiate the entire fucking country for generations to come". Nice safety country thinking there.

For frack sake, give me 4 hours with one of these truck and I can make it remote controlled, even by fiber optic wire if it need to be interference proof.
Did nuclear radiation also give people "th3 stoopid" ?

by **Yokohammer** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:56 pm

The self-defense forces are now having a go at reactor #3 with a "special" fire-fighting truck thingy. Hope they're more coordinated than the cops.

by **Mike Oxlong** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:57 pm

Coligny wrote:For frack sake, give me 4 hours with one of these truck and I can make it remote controlled, even by fiber optic wire if it need to be interference proof.
Did nuclear radiation also give people "th3 stoopid" ?

I think that was the edieukayshun system... :robot:

by **IkemenTommy** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:58 pm

ichigo partygirl wrote:

As always, TV ToKYo (aka Ch7 or Ch12 for you analogs) being imprudent during such crisis moment. Fishing along the harbor while declaring Tsunami warning.. classic :rofl:

by **Taka-Okami** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:59 pm

Coligny wrote:For frack sake, give me 4 hours with one of these truck and I can make it remote controlled, even by fiber optic wire if it need to be interference proof.
Did nuclear radiation also give people "th3 stoopid" ?

Everyone knows Asians in general cannt think out of the box. That's why they arent finding a solution as it isnt in the manual.

by **Yokohammer** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:59 pm

Coligny wrote:Neener neener you'z Frenchier than me...

Repeat aftur me:

frrrrRRRRROOOOOmage...

MahDEUHmouaZeLLLE...

Now harder but most necessary:

Voullez coucher avec moua ce soir ?

Funniest thing I've read all day.
I can't stop shaking with laughter ... oh wait, no, it's just another aftershock.

[SIZE="1"](I really did laugh longs and hard at this.)[/SIZE]

by **matsuki** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:00 pm

ahahahaha! <3 coligny [no homo]

Dayam it's cold....I just came home and someone has messed with the language on my TV....the fg translators are great but the japanese ones are making up new words like "freezingly" and can't seem to spit out half of what they want to say "and....ummmm....and....ummm" fire those bitches.

by **IkemenTommy** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:01 pm

Taka-Okami wrote:Everyone knows Asians in general cannt think out of the box. That's why they arent finding a solution as it isnt in the manual.

You do realize that these same asians are running JaPanica...

by **vitellus** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:08 pm

Yeah it's cold. How may of you FGers are NOT using their air-conditioners (or any electric powered-heater) tonight?

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