[pKgGpUlF]

Japan owns a bunch of our debt too.

Perhaps we can pay them off with services rendered.

The fuck?

thousands of people just died. Perhaps you could let the corpses cool before you start salivating over dollars.



Fucking people. The fuck is wrong with us?

[Barbshowers]

"The United States has transported coolant to a Japanese nuclear plant affected by a massive earthquake and will continue to assist Japan"


U.S. delivers coolant to Japan nuclear plant: Clinton | Reuters

That sort of expense is worth it.

Thats the least America can do after nuking them in WW2

[toopyimport]

Thats the least America can do after nuking them in WW2

LOL? WTF is wrong with you? What happened in response to a war of aggression and our current reaction in mind of that past aggression is a positive thing about this nation and you want to crack jokes about death?

[newshep]

When the foreign government of a close ally asks for help, it makes sense to intervene. It certainly makes more sense than most invasions.

Yeah, especially when you can't pay your bills at home. Thats what I do, give my money to needy people and let my bills go, then take cash advances on a high percentage credit card so they I don't go bankrupt. F'n killer plan, eh?

[newshep]

Japan owns a bunch of our debt too.

Perhaps we can pay them off with services rendered.

That would be a start, wouldn't it? I feel for the Japanese people, but I feel more for the American citizens/taxpayers.

[cheesypeetyz]

Another reminder we are like fleas on a dog's back, and are at the mercy of Nature.

Yep, When Mother Nature throws a temper tantrum she can be a real bitch.

[spaxiaroorbes]

Mother nature is mad at the rethugs. LOL

[newshep]

OK, I give, what is a rethug? A person that moves out of the ghetto and then moves back?

[newshep]

Unfortunately, some day this will happen in CA.

[pKgGpUlF]

Unfortunately, some day this will happen in CA.

They're ready for it. It's these guys that aren't:

[hujdrftgkas]

They're ready for it. It's these guys that aren't:

If you watch NatGeo--the big one will be coming out of Wyoming--wiping out half of this country. Those gysers aren't blowing just steam.

But I imagine California is due for a big one first.

[layevymed]

Tsunami waves swamp Hawaii beaches, brush West Coast
Dozens of ships damaged in Calif. harbor; no human casualties

Tsunami waves swamped Hawaii beaches and brushed the U.S. western coast Friday but didn't immediately cause major damage after devastating Japan and sparking evacuations throughout the Pacific.

Water rushed up on roadways and into hotel lobbies on the Big Island and low-lying areas in Maui were flooded as 7-foot waves crashed ashore. Smaller waves hit the U.S. Western Coast and beaches were closed as fishermen fired up their boats and left harbors to ride out the swell.

. . .

Sirens sounded for hours before dawn up and roadways and beaches were mostly empty as the tsunami struck. By midmorning, waves were crashing against the 30-foot bluffs in Crescent City, Calif., where a tsunami killed 11 people in 1964.
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Dozens of boats were damaged as surging water knocked them from their docks, both in Crescent City and on California's central coast in Santa Cruz, where loose fishing boats crashed into one another and chunks of wooden docks broke off.

President Barack Obama said the Federal Emergency Management Agency is ready to come to the aid of any U.S. states or territories who need help. Coast Guard cutter and aircraft crews were positioning themselves to be ready to conduct response and survey missions as soon as conditions allow.

. . .

Scientists then acknowledged they overstated the threat but defended their actions, saying they took the proper steps and learned the lessons of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami that killed thousands of people who didn't get enough warning.

This time around, the warning went out within 10 minutes of the earthquake in Japan, said Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist for the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu.

"We called this right. This evacuation was necessary," Fryer said. "There's absolutely no question, this was the right thing to do," he said.
The warnings issued by the tsunami center covered an area stretching the entire western coast of the United States and Canada from the Mexican border to Chignik Bay in Alaska.

. . . Tsunami swamps Hawaii beaches, brushes West Coast - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com

Better safe than sorry, and these warnings do indeed get people prepared for it to mimimise losses.

[hujdrftgkas]

Indeed they were ready for it:



Tsunami swamps Hawaii beaches, brushes West Coast - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com

Better safe than sorry, and these warnings do indeed get people prepared for it to mimimise losses, especially human ones. It's a lesson I hope other areas like the ones you referenced don't learn the hard way.

Here we see the difference in building standards Haiti--versus Japan. Those Japanese skyscrapers held up in this earthquake--versus Haiti--everything collapsed killing 100's of thousands.

[pKgGpUlF]

If you watch NatGeo--the big one will be coming out of Wyoming--wiping out half of this country. Those gysers aren't blowing just steam.

But I imagine California is due for a big one first.

Oh, yeah, when that one goes, even Denver's done for.

[mxzjxluwst]

A 6.6 quake just hit NW Japan within the last hour.

No word on whether it's an aftershock or a whole new event.

No damage reported.

[newshep]

They're ready for it. It's these guys that aren't:

Looks like I may be OK, I'm in that upper RH corner of Texas.

[newshep]

If you watch NatGeo--the big one will be coming out of Wyoming--wiping out half of this country. Those gysers aren't blowing just steam.

But I imagine California is due for a big one first.

I saw that show.........yow!

[newshep]

A 6.6 quake just hit NW Japan within the last hour.

No word on whether it's an aftershock or a whole new event.

No damage reported.

They said on the news this AM that the aftershocks were over 5 and coming every 5-10 mins or so.

[pKgGpUlF]

Looks like I may be OK, I'm in that upper RH corner of Texas.

until the refugees start comin...

[pKgGpUlF]

They said on the news this AM that the aftershocks were over 5 and coming every 5-10 mins or so.

I can't even begin to imagine how terrifying it must be for those people.

I'm not a prayin' man, but I'll say one for them.