Ginger, do you think it would have made a difference if they were there 2-3 days ago?
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'A Hole in the World'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Mar 15, 2011 7:15:42 am PDT #28362 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
hippocampus - Mar 15, 2011 7:15:47 am PDT #28363 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
you'll be awesome Cash.
Trudy Booth - Mar 15, 2011 7:18:44 am PDT #28364 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
At worst, Trudy, there could be a swath of land that's contaminated with radioactive particles and it would take a lot of work to clean up. The problem is that there are some long-lived isotopes you wouldn't want to live with for years or, in particular, ingest.
That's the part that scares me. It's not flashy enough for the evening news. Ground gets contaminated, groundwater gets contaminated, people move onto the land, margins get blurry, governments change (though less of a fear with Japan, pretty stable gov)... And what about the ocean? Obviously you get some pretty serious dilution, but you still get problems wherever those isotopes enter the food chain. Scary stuff.
Zenkitty - Mar 15, 2011 7:19:18 am PDT #28365 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
My boss doesn't fully seem to understand what going home sick entails, but I'm going to go lie down in my car and then go home.
Get home safely and feel better, ita. May your boss get a clue.
Ginger, I very much appreciate your commentary. You're beating the news media by miles. And I agree that you could probably publish your comments made here as a column, with only minor modifications.
Cash, that's great! Have fun!
Kat - Mar 15, 2011 7:21:03 am PDT #28366 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
We are waiting to sign consents for surgery #3 which stinks.
Fred Pete - Mar 15, 2011 7:21:04 am PDT #28367 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I'd like to add my thanks, Ginger. "One cross-country flight" is a lot more specific than "minimal."
Ginger - Mar 15, 2011 7:33:39 am PDT #28368 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Ginger, do you think it would have made a difference if they were there 2-3 days ago?
Who knows? But it's easy to get tunnel vision when managing an emergency of that scope. Having more experts in that reactor type on the ground might have meant spotting the trouble in Unit 2 earlier, for example.
Burrell - Mar 15, 2011 7:36:48 am PDT #28369 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh my gosh, so much going on!
Sending good thoughts to Maria and family, to Kat, K and kids, and to ita. ita, feel free to call me if there's anything I can do to help out.
Maria, I'm sorry that good thoughts are all I have. It's such a hard situation.
Many thanks to Ginger for your smart analysis of the situation in Japan. You are amazing.
Amy - Mar 15, 2011 7:47:36 am PDT #28370 of 30001
Because books.
Maria, all kinds of ~ma to your uncle and your dad and all of you.
Get home safely ~ma to your brother, Hayden. That's scary.
I think what's really sobering about Japan is that so much work is still being done in Haiti to get the country back on its feet, and this disaster is magnified hundreds of times. I just keep thinking, where will those people go? How will they live? And then my brain just shuts down.
SailAweigh - Mar 15, 2011 7:48:53 am PDT #28371 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Adding my thanks for having Ginger here. It's so nice to be able to come in and listen to an expert in the field and who also speaks common sense.