We are praying for them....there is plenty of bad stuff going on in the world, a lot of it created by people themselves....these poor folks got punched right in the mouth hard.  Hopefully they can come up with a supply of fresh water and some temporary power soon.  Who knows how long it will take for all the public transit systems to be cleared for use.  I have not heard one way or the other if the other reactors at that plant were safely shut down....it will be good if they only have to deal with the one, that is bad enough.

It is kinda far out that the whole of Japan is about 8-10 feet closer to us then it was last Wednesday.  The rotation of the Earth actually sped up by a few milliseconds (microseconds?). I am really surprised that there was not a larger Tsunami across the Pacific.

Not good:  I just heard on the news a minute ago....three reactors in trouble at the location we keep seeing on the news, six total struggling in the area.  They are pumping sea water into three of them, last ditch efforts.  I hope they build cores as good as they build cars.  not good news at all

Thanks for that, all of my wifes family is around Hiroshima up in the mountains so they are ok.

Amazing pics, just can't believe it. Complete towns just gone! I was reading somewhere that they said the salt water would sterilize the land for years to come making it useless to farming and growing anything. Hard to imagine since every little town I've been to in Japan and especially around my wifes parents house, most everybody had a garden, rice paddy on their land and from the pictures you can see that there is a lot of farmland damaged.