Japan...

[renjiluvah]

Wow. So a lot happened since I last wrote. That Tsunami, I definitely did not expect that. Has anyone ever seen that anime, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0? It's depressing. And it sucks that it actually came true. I'd been keeping track with the news and checked in on a friend of mine in Hawaii since there was a warning out there too. Scary stuff

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[aldedron]

Ah, my mom and I were actually JUST watching tsunami footage on YouTube! Scary stuff... and we've been doing this every morning and every night since 9PM Thursday night. Red Cross definately sounds VEEERY apetizing, at the moment, and I'll probably be guilted into donating sometime within the next hour lol. It's for a cause!
And as for the anime worries: That hadn't even crossed my mind O.o Now I'm worried...

As for earthquakes and tsunami, it's predicted the Cascadia fault will be struck sometime within my lifetime, so the Seattle-Tacoma area is doomed. Our buildings aren't built to stand 9.0 quakes, and the land is filled with water, so it'll turn into a mudpit; Seattle will collapse into the harbor, undoubtedly. *sigh* The Sound should take a page outta Japan's book if we hope to survive that. *long pause* Particularly Long Beach; I consider anyone who lives there as big of idiots as those who live in New Orleans (a disaster waiting to happen -_- Katrina did not shock me, nor will Long Island when a tsunami hits)

[renjiluvah]

Lol it's true! It IS for a cause. I'm sure any donation will help.

Eek you live on a fault line? OMG that sucks. Ever thought of high tailing it out of there before a disaster strikes?

And I agree. I would not live near the water or places like Hawaii for good reason. California and Florida too. I would not to invest in a life that has a percentage of getting wrecked by natural disasters. Katrina did not shock me either. It's sad what happened but I too was saying, why are you living by the water? In Japan's case, the entire place is a giant island. Not much you can do there when your entire country is an island when compared to Louisiana, would've just moved more inland. The US has plenty land in the middle too. Although too much in the middle is the Tornado zone. Gah!

[lullabyes22]

I know what you mean about misplaced priorities. Loving an anime or manga is well and good, but for fuck's sake... life is not all pixellated images and fictional storylines. What's happening in Japan is awful and real. I remember when the news initially broke out, and I was watching the CNN broadcast where they were comparing the images of the tsunami to effing MOVIE SCENES. Can we say: tacky?

*Sigh* All this media/technology exposure really screws up people's heads. Even empathy becomes a self-centered emotion. You stop seeing people as actual *people*; instead, they're just faces on a screen.

I'm personally donating like crazy. I was apartmentless after 9/11, and I know that disorientation is nothing compared to what so many people in Japan are suffering.

Anyhow, that's my emo rant... >.> Good luck with school, Renji! You can do eet!~<3

[renjiluvah]

I agree. It definitely hits close to home when you know the disaster hit someplace just as urban and up with technology as here. I heard about the radiation happening now - now they're saying the workers that were working so hard to fix those plants even though they were wearing suits, were still exposed too much and will likely die, and despite that, these workers are still trying to fix these plants. I really wanted to cry. It's so depressing. They're saying this might force Japan back into recession. I really wish there was something more that I could do aside from a 10 buck donation