sumi, I'm glad your family is safe, and was able to ease your fears so quickly. One point for this interweb-tube-thingy.
bt, I think my DH will be on the radio program Late Night Live on your continent on Monday. Unfortunately, they are not flying us in for this. Listen for a crying 22 month old in the background!
Sumi, what a relief for your family.
My friends are in Tokyo and have checked in safe. They are stranded away from where they were staying (no transport available), but have gotten hospitality from friends of friends and have a safe place to stay.
I am stunned by the earthquake resistance of the buildings in Japan. This was a BIG earthquake, and very little damage. People report being like popcorn in a pan, but the buildings stayed up. Go team engineering.
Sumi, I am glad to hear your family are safe.
As quickly as news does come to social media, I'm finding it hard to get my head around the enormity of this quake just from tweets and pictures.
And in happier news, my coworker visited with her goldendoodle puppy, who is already bigger than Boomer, our usual Friday visitor:
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Safety-ma for anyone with folks in the area of the quake and the tsunami.
Hippo birdies, tommyrot!
Can I just state how shitty our news is? I've been watching the news CNN/MSNBC for the past 1-2 hours and it is awful.
I decided to find a ukproxy service and watch BBC video and after 20 minutes, I already feel more knowledgeable about the situation than 2 hours of US cable news. That is a crying shame.
sumi, I'm glad to hear about your family.
I hope others who have yet to check in and their loved ones are safe.
I haven't watched CNN for a long time, but I just turned it on for a couple of minutes this morning, and was appalled at how bad it was.
Every time I happen to catch CNN, they're showing YouTube videos or reading tweets. It's truly pathetic.
When I turned it on there was a guy drawing pictures with a Telestrator, and he looked like a parody of the guy who does that on the Onion News Network.