sanjo 2 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Apparently: Today's earthquake was the strongest to strike Japan for 140 years. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Just got home after a 3hr walk. gave my wife and son the biggest kids'. Waiting to hear how friend are in iwate. **** scary. Apolgies for language but things were smashing and breaking l. Link to post Share on other sites
sanjo 2 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 This weekend's skiing plans don't seem so important anymore Link to post Share on other sites
griller 9 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Where were you Rob? Link to post Share on other sites
charlotte 0 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Awful. This is just so heartbreaking. 24 dead is the latest on the news just now. Anyone having much luck with mobile phones, or normal phones for that matter? Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I was in Ofuna, a little bit north of tubby beaver. It's pandemonium, phones have only just started to work again. Where we were it was a shindo 5. Cracks appeared in buildings and in the road. Never again will I joke about earthquakes. All the train library are down, buses are running at full capacity and generators are being Used at essential traffic lights. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 Originally Posted By: RobBright Never again will I joke about earthquakes. You really do have to experience it to understand the horror, don't you? Actually today it didn't feel like shindo 5 here, but apparently that's what it was. For the Chuetsu it was 6å¼± here. Glad you are ok, if just very shaken! Aftershocks down there now? Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Dude, I thought the one in 2005 was bad but today. I will admitted it, in the building I was in, I honestly thought my time was up. It was swaying violently, creaking and water tanks outside were exploding. Just saw the machida costco carpark has been pretty much wiped out. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 Yikes that sounds dramatic! I'm happy for you. Not that you had to experience this of course but got out intact. By the 2005 one you mean Chuetsu? Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Rob, and all SJers in the country, my thoughts are with you in this scary time. I have never experienced such a jolt, and never really want to. But I do feel for those whose lives, and livelihoods, have been washed away. The reporting footage on news channels is horrendous, the sight of the wave devouring farmland and buildings just blows my mind. Tears form unbidden. Please, everyone, look after yourselves and your loved ones. Link to post Share on other sites
Tex 3 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Footage here is devastating, the human toll for this will be very large and reverberate for years to come, having just been part of the recent (and continuing) results of natural disasters in Australia, I am again moved beyond what words could convey by the extent and effect of this situation now and in the future. Many of my Japanese hosts asked me about recent events in my home country and were genuinely saddened and extremely concerned by the events. I am humbled and saddened now to have to return it. I hope the best for you all over there. Link to post Share on other sites
Schneebored 0 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 My heart goes out to everyone affected. Truely shocking. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Originally Posted By: muikabochi By the 2005 one you mean Chuetsu? Yep. Any news on metabo? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 cladding was falling from buildings in Yokohama, it seems to have had a bit harder than Fujisawa. I saw videos of Enoshima though and the water was up to the base of the bridge and flowing very fast into the beach......not major damage but scary so close to home. Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Seen those images of the tsunami eating up the rice fields near Sendai? Just spoke with a close Japanese friend who tells me that his best friend lives there. In that exact neighbourhood. He can't contact him right now. He's hoping he was out at the time Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 This area Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 shit!! I hope he's ok....doesn't look good thogh, that video is pretty mental. Link to post Share on other sites
norcal 5 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Just saw the images of the oil refinery. Scary! Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver cladding was falling from buildings in Yokohama. Water tanks were exploding in Ofuna man. 5 stories up and BOOM, water everywhere. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 happy I got off work early, if I had left at normal time I probably would be stuck in the Subway tunnel in Yokohama Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 Is any public transport working at all? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 Not really sure why all the reporters in the Niigata tv studio are wearing hard hats, it seems a little over the top considering... Link to post Share on other sites
LiquidX 0 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I bet there must be some stories of people being stuck on lifts with power cuts etc. Terrible terrible stuff. Link to post Share on other sites
panhead_pete 27 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Please please everyone be safe. Looks devastating. :( Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Originally Posted By: muikabochi Not really sure why all the reporters in the Niigata tv studio are wearing hard hats, it seems a little over the top considering... Some buses are, but they are full up. Link to post Share on other sites
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