Showing posts with label disaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disaster. Show all posts

Monday, May 09, 2011

Struggles

With all of the big news of late, a reminder:

Devastated Alabama Town Struggles to Account for Its Missing - NYTimes.com

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ESPN visits Tuscaloosa for tornado-recovery story | al.com:
"Davis grew up in Muscle Shoals and graduated from Alabama. He was in second grade when his house in Guin was destroyed by the outbreak of tornadoes that swept through the South in April 1974."
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Toomer's for Tuscaloosa

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COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF HARDEST HIT AREAS IN ALABAMA IN NEED OF IMMEDIATE RELIEF!!!

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Radiation

Don't feel much like blogging with the horror show in Japan on-going.

Terrible. Just terrible.

Japan: New radiation leaks harmful to health - Yahoo! News

There's a map at this link which shows how close the radiation will waft to the Bay Area. Looks like it reaches land in Seattle and Vancouver.

Daily Kos: Breaking: Spent fuel fire at reactor 4, hydrogen explosion & radiation release

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First reaction is 'idiot', but this kid may be a cat since 99% of those who do jump are killed.

He did it for kicks.

Windsor teen survives Golden Gate Bridge jump

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Monday, March 14, 2011

Japan

Awoke in Vancouver to the news and warnings of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Not much can be said. Horrible.

Tide of 1,000 bodies overwhelms quake-hit Japan - Yahoo! News:
"TAKAJO, Japan – A tide of bodies washed up along Japan's coastline, crematoriums were overwhelmed and rescue workers ran out of body bags as the nation faced the grim reality of a mounting humanitarian, economic and nuclear crisis Monday after a calamitous tsunami.

Millions of people were facing a fourth night without water, food or heating in near-freezing temperatures in the northeast devastated by an earthquake and the wave it spawned. Meanwhile, a third reactor at a nuclear power plant lost its cooling capacity and the fuel rods at another were at least briefly fully exposed, raising fears of a meltdown."
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California ‘closely monitoring’ Japan nuclear leak | The Raw Story:
"LOS ANGELES — California is closely monitoring efforts to contain leaks from a quake-damaged Japanese nuclear plant, a spokesman said Saturday, as experts said radiation could be blown out across the Pacific.

While officials downplayed any immediate danger, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission deployed two experts to Japan, where the Fukushima plant, which was rocked by a large explosion earlier in the day in the aftermath of Japan's strongest-ever earthquake."
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Wall of Water Slams Japanese Town

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Tsunami reaches the Bay. Eastern span of the Bay Bridge in the background.



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Photos: Tsunami damage in Hawaii, California | Phoenix News | Arizona News | azfamily.com | Arizona News Headlines

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I snapped this at LAX on Saturday. Much pain on that flight.



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