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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Hell on Earth: I've seen 20 wars. But nothing prepared me for this |
| 2011-03-14 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #12 Kelly, that piccie is very iconic. But perhaps the author had this one in mind: |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2011-03-14 23:14 |
| #11 The picture of the lady wrapped in the blanket really got to me. I must say that the second bullet point in the intro was in really poor taste. But I guess some will spare no expense to make a point. |
| Posted by: kelly 2011-03-14 19:56 |
| #10 A question for or Nuke Plant experts... Dar found this Before and After link from OZ and I was looking at the changes around the nuke plant. Which buildings would have long term temp storage of spent rods (holding tank) and do you see them in the after photo? |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-03-14 18:06 |
| #9 Major T. J. "King" Kong: Stay on the bomb run, boys! I'm gonna get them doors open if it harelips ever'body on Bear Creek! |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-03-14 14:27 |
| #8 Coastal Asians tend to build flimsy housing that is easy to replace. Japanese culture is largely based on earthquake adaption. Its the nuke plants that they are really worried about. |
| Posted by: Angoting McGurque1187 2011-03-14 14:14 |
| #7 Number of people who died of fall out related radiation from open air nuclear testing [not counting those intentionally exposed in government experiments - re:atomic soldiers] since the 1950s? Number of people in the same population who died of skin cancers due to sun exposure? It's all relative. Don't think so? Then why all the expense and national effort for over 3,000 people killed on one day on 9/11 when ten times as many people die on our highways that year and every years since. Yet, we seem to climb into our cars everyday and face the hazard with casual rationalization. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-14 09:02 |
| #6 We seem to have survived. WE did, nimble. But not everybody did. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-03-14 08:45 |
| #5 How many bananas is that? Why don't they compare it to the amount a kid in the 1950's got when they were doing atmospheric nuclear testing. We seem to have survived. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-03-14 07:15 |
| #4 2nd hydrogen explosion at Fukushima Dai-ichi reported on Monday. 11 workers were injured & a large column of smoke was spotted. PACIFIC OCEAN (March 14, 2011) - The U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and aircraft away from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant after detecting low level contamination in the air and on its aircraft operating in the area. The source of this airborne radioactivity is a radioactive plume released from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant. For perspective, the maximum potential radiation dose received by any shipÂ’s force personnel aboard the ship when it passed through the area was less than the radiation exposure received from about one month of exposure to natural background radiation from sources such as rocks, soil, and the sun. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-14 04:54 |
| #3 ION RENSE > RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS QUAKE WARNING FOR THE US. * NEWS SKERALA > MORE EARTHQUAKES [new] FORECASTED FOR JAPAN. MAG 7.0-OR-HIGHER in + around Nippon. and * WORLD NEWS > TWO DAYS AGO, A MARCH [2011]MEGA-QUAKE WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR THE US, BUT STILL NO NEWS ABOUT IT. * SAME > MU RESEARCHER SAYS NEXT LARGE ECNETRAL US EARTHQUAKE MAY NOT BE IN NEW MADRID. * WAFF > A DIRECT HIT ON JAPAN! | GOVT SOURCES SAY HAARP WAS A DIRECT HIT ON JAPAN. * NEWS KERALA > JAPAN QUAKE [aftershocks] COULD [hypothetically]GO ON FOR YEARS, SAYS USGS EXPERT. As per USGS Director DR. MARCIA MCNUTT, courtesy of "OMORI'S LAW". * TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > TSUNAMI WAVES REACH KURILS ISLANDS + RUSSIA EVACUATES 11,000 FROM KURILS ISLANDS AFTER JAPAN QUAKE; + FOUR TIDAL WAVES HIT PHILIPPINES, COASTAL AREAS NOW "GHOST TOWNS", after Govt-ordered evacuation. Filipinos are repor now starting to return back to their homes. Besides in INDONESIA, VOLCANOES ON RUSSIA'S KAMCHATKA ARE REPOR ERUPTIN'. * SAME/NEWS KERALA > ZHIRINOVSKY PROPOSES RESETTLEMENT OF JAPANESE IN RUSSIA. Leave dem dar Disaster-prone islands + come live in East Russia = RFE. Must learn Russian + Russ customs though. IMO ARTIC read, IFF CHINA WANTS JAPAN FOR MILBASES, LET'EM HAVE IT, DISASTERS-N-EVERYTHING [wink-wink]. SUB-READ, CHINA + JAPAN STAY OUT OF THE SEA OF OKHOTSK/NORTH CHINA SEA + RUS KURILS "STRATEGIC ZONE". ** Also from TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > CHINESE VESSEL [PB] AGAIN SPOTTED NEAR SENKAKUS. Chin vessel claims it is simply patrolling + monitoring China's sovereign DAOYUS territory. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > WEN BANGGUO:CHINA WILL NEVER HAVE [Western-style]MULTI-PARTY GOVT. No Federalism + No Privatization + No competing/different Political Parties, -ISMS SAVE FOR CHINESE [State]SOCIALISM + CHIN CPC. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-03-14 03:16 |
| #2 These folks, deserving of your prayers, came back from what the 20th Air Force dished out for a year and a half. They'll come back from this. But some of those pictures remind one of what the place looked like after a night run by Curt & Co. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-03-14 02:44 |
| #1 FREEREPUBLIC > SUPER-EARTHQUAKE NO2 ALERT FOR JAPAN. Quake Pert forecasts a MAG 7-OR-GREATER TO OCCUR WIDIN THE NEXT 3 DAYS. * SAME > SOME 2000 BODIES FOUND IN QUAKE-HIT MIYAGI COATSAL AREAS. Roughly 8,000 from an initial 10,000 Persons feared missing in Miyagi still out there. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-03-14 02:27 |