Slippery Jim 65 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Echineko, that's terribly sad. I hope your other friend turns up well and safe. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 echineko, that is so sad. I do hope your other friend is found safe and well. Hope ALL can be reunited with their friends after this difficult time, although with every day, the prospect seems to diminish. WRT the guy who was "found", it seems hje had been at an evacuation point and had returned to his home to look for stuff. WRT the media, I am more and more disenchanted with the sensationalist reporting in Aus. It seems that the various media outlets are vying with each other to see who can make the most outrageous "news" item. I just wish they'd STFU, and do something useful (for a change)! Link to post Share on other sites
spacefrog 0 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Japocalypse Now!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Tokyo is unnaffected! The NEX is off right now due to the powere restrictions but the Skyliner into Shinjuku is running as are the local lines. I haven't been in watching the news today, I decided to get out and get away from the madness but the small snippet I saw said that 1,2 and 3 Reactors were now stablised. A month.....other than up north, he won't notice much I reckon Link to post Share on other sites
smostyn 1 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Thanks guys, I will pass it on. I appreciate the insight. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 Tokabochi flew from Narita today. He said the Skyliner was working as normal and very quiet. He said the airport was quiet too actually. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 Libya seems to be getting all the headlines today. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Not spicy enough at the moment. Need some explosions of mega-quake aftershocks or something. Although I did read somewhere that Brits are being provided with iodine or something. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Yep, Brits are to be offered iodine if they want it. It isn't compulsory, just for the ones freaked out that they are going to die. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Are we going to die? Are we going to die?! Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Dunno, have to ask Tubby on that one. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 One day, gg, YOU WILL!!! I can guarantee it. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Originally Posted By: smostyn Hi folks, I have a mate who has been booked to go to Japan in May. He isn't a skier or boarder and will not even see the snow. The media has spooked him and I have encouraged him to still go. His trip is to Tokyo for three days and then down to Kyoto for five days. He has been looking forward to the trip for over a year. The trip isnt for another month yet. Can any of you local folks tell me is the NEX is running from Narita to Tokyo and the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto? My theory is, if they are running now, they will be running then. He would need to change his plans in the next week in order to get money back, if he decides not to go. Sorry to possibly hijack the thread, I couldn't think of where else to put this. Thanks guys. Seriously I can't see many people wanting to come to Japan in the near future. I know I wouldn't. Hundreds of shakes and everything? Alternative destinations will be found. A bit different if you have things booked up somewhere perhaps but Choice A - a place that is being battered by earthquakes Choice B - a place that is not Hmmmm, give me a bit of time to think on that one. When some of the current flee-ers come back in the coming weeks, let us know how full the planes are. Link to post Share on other sites
norcal 5 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Originally Posted By: muikabochi Libya seems to be getting all the headlines today. I bet the ground is shaking over there, lol! but srsly they need to quit fighting Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 A visual representation of the radiation levels we face everyday. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Geiger counter in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Originally Posted By: pie-eater Seriously I can't see many people wanting to come to Japan in the near future. I know I wouldn't. Hundreds of shakes and everything? Alternative destinations will be found. A bit different if you have things booked up somewhere perhaps but Choice A - a place that is being battered by earthquakes Choice B - a place that is not Hmmmm, give me a bit of time to think on that one. When some of the current flee-ers come back in the coming weeks, let us know how full the planes are. Ha! id be there in a heartbeat! For three years i lived on the 6th floor of an apartment complex in hamamatsu that looked like it would collapse if you looked at it a little sternly. Suffice it to say earthquakes (and particularly the tokai earthquake), were a daily feature of my time there. Hell ive even read the slightly difficult to read stop hamaoka website several times over. In fact, earthquakes are such a feature of japanese life that when i first visited the place in 2004 for a mere three weeks i was bombarded by around 5 of them (and three typhoons). Link to post Share on other sites
hakubaka 0 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 It is so weird that we have had amazing powder here yet tens of thousands of people are suffering. It breaks my heart how lucky most of us are. I pray for those families that aren't so lucky. I hope they get the help they need soon. What a terrible tragedy. Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 I have been out of Japan since the day before the quake. I kind of feel lucky, but while I'm wary of going back in 6 days - really dislike quakes - I will be back. People here though are asking me to consider not, and in the short term at least I have a feeling planes are going to be rather empty. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Rob.....after serious consideration, it would appear that we are not going to die. Phew! Link to post Share on other sites
tokabochi 9 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 OK back now with relieved family. Went quite quick actually. Possibly helped on by the extra engine the plane grew due to radiation. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 I bet they could save on the heating the 'food' as well. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Sorry TB, but you are going to die (probably crushed by a runaway uyoku armored bus) just like the rest of us. Not, however, of radiation poisoning today. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 shit......so I took all those Iodine tablets for nothing??!! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 21, 2011 Share Posted March 21, 2011 Did they taste good though TB? Link to post Share on other sites
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