What did the chicken do?

[kyburg]

Was Haiti only last year?

I wake up this morning to find Sendai, Japan has almost been completely wiped out of existence.

I can only imagine how awful this is going to get before it gets better again.

But in this, I am certain. This is Japan. This is a place so well-prepared and experienced with earthquakes that Los Angeles turns to no other source for more experienced minds when making their disaster recovery plans.

There will be huge, heartbreaking losses. But it will get better again. That's what's happened before, and this is a place with long, long histories.

Mind you, an earthquake of this magnitude WILL kill, no way around it. And the numbers are horrific.

But it's orders of magnitude less than it could be. Prepared, compliant and educated. That's how you save lives in a tectonically active zone.

I am so sorry.

Comments

[drlaurac.livejournal.com]

My heart breaks for them, but I am so amazed at how well they weathered it.

[isolt.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm just callous, but the death toll is looking like a few thousand, at worst. Given the disasters we've seen in the last decade alone, that just doesn't seem like so many, given the scale of what happened.

I'm much more concerned for the people who are still alive, but have lost everything.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Just the beginning, hon. Just the beginning.