[TunedM2C]

Explosion at fourth reactor just took place.

This video is pretty nuts too.

[Blake]

Originally Posted by Tuned1

Explosion at fourth reactor just took place.

reactor 4 is on fire

[TunedM2C]

^ Yeah, looks like some of the stories were overlapping making it seem there was a new blast.

[Blake]

either way, situation: fucked. especially now that it has global implications.

[yakev724]

Honestly didn't expect to see these nuclear problems, I thought measures would be in place to deal with powering down a reactor without electricity. I hope for everyone's sake, especially the japanese gov't's, that this can be contained.

Apparently GE built the reactors, though I suspect that's like mentioning the architects who designed the WTC, it doesn't really factor in to what's happened.

[Pseudo Nim]

Originally Posted by yakev724

Honestly didn't expect to see these nuclear problems, I thought measures would be in place to deal with powering down a reactor without electricity. I hope for everyone's sake, especially the japanese gov't's, that this can be contained.

Apparently GE built the reactors, though I suspect that's like mentioning the architects who designed the WTC, it doesn't really factor in to what's happened.

Yep ... having been built 40 years ago, it's a bit unlikely they would even REMEMBER how it was built, heh.

[AngelinIsRich08]

This sounds terrible but I should've shorted some of Japan's companies stocks like Toyota which fell 5% today. Any ideas, maybe long TM? And I've been watching the news feeds and it's terrible...

[Nutballa]

The next Chernobyl. But it could be worse since it's near water.

[GregTheStig]

I'm hearing something about a Volcano erupting in Japan? Anyone else hear something similar?

[kyleb350]

yeah, but it's not a major eruption

[1sikbmr]

Originally Posted by GregTheStig

I'm hearing something about a Volcano erupting in Japan? Anyone else hear something similar?

yup...

[GregTheStig]

Thanks. They can't seem to catch a break, can they?

[Year's_End]

Originally Posted by Tuned1

Explosion at fourth reactor just took place.

This video is pretty nuts too.

that is SO surreal. wow, i've never seen anything like that!

[DougLikesBMW]

Two tsunami survivors are reunited by a rescuer

[.:bHd:.]

so california is gonna become an island soon huh? Jokes aside my heart drops every time i see photos of Japan thinking how horrifying it must be for them

[Blake]

Originally Posted by .:bHd:.

so california is gonna become an island soon huh? Jokes aside my heart drops every time i see photos of Japan thinking how horrifying it must be for them

no just a nuclear wasteland for now

[DougLikesBMW]

Miracle of the baby girl plucked from the rubble: Four-month-old reunited with her father after incredible rescue.

The sound of a baby’s cry amid the rubble seemed so impossible that soldiers searching a tsunami-smashed village dismissed it as a mistake.
But it came again. And they realised they had not been hearing things.
They pulled away wood and slate, dug back thick oozing mud – and there was the child they were to describe as a ‘tiny miracle’.


[[And fear: Upon hearing another tsunami warning, a father tries to flee to safety with the baby girl he has just been reunited with]]

The four-month-old girl had been swept from her parents’ arms in the shattered village of Ishinomaki when the deadly wave crashed into the family home.

For three days, the child’s frantic family had believed she was lost to them for ever.
But yesterday, for a brief moment, the horrors of the disaster were brightened by one helpless baby’s story of survival.
Soldiers from the Japanese Defence Force had been going from door to door pulling bodies from the devastated homes in Ishinomaki, a coastal town northeast of Sendai.
Most of the victims were elderly, unable to escape the destructive black tide.
But for this precious moment, at least, it was only the child who mattered to the team of civil defence troops who found her.

One of them picked her up in his arms, wrapped her in a blanket which had been handed to him and cradled the child as his colleagues crowded around, not believing that someone as young as this had survived when all hope had been lost.
The tiniest survivor was cold and wet and crying, but she is believed to have suffered no other injuries. Why she did not drown remained a mystery.
But the soldiers were somehow able to trace her overjoyed father, who had been taking refuge in his wrecked home with the rest of his family.
Even then, the nightmare wasn’t over. For just minutes after the emotional reunion, the shell-shocked survivors were told that a second tsunami might be on its way.
The panicked father begged the soldiers to take the baby to safety on higher ground.
But the 11am alarm proved to be false and the reunited family returned to try and rebuild their home.
Amid the devastation, there have been precious few tales of survival.


[[Joy: The member of Japan's Self-Defence Force member holds the four-month-old baby girl in Ishinomaki, northern Japan after her rescue]]

But the discovery of the unnamed child has given fresh hope that others might be found alive in the shattered landscape which covers scores of miles of the east coast of Honshu island.
Yesterday, it emerged that witnesses looking down from the second floor of a house in one of the worst hit areas thought they noticed some movement in the back of a wrecked car by the side of the road and soldiers discovered an elderly woman who had been trapped in the passenger seat for more than 20 hours.
Although she was traumatised by her ordeal, the victim was said to be otherwise unhurt.
As the Mail reported yesterday, Hiromitsu Shinkawa was found sitting on the roof of his floating home about nine miles from shore. Waving a red cloth, he was picked up by a boat. His wife is missing.
‘Several helicopters and ships passed but none of them noticed me,’ he said. ‘I thought that was going to be the last day of my life.’
A man in his 70s was also pulled from a collapsed building in Sendai, a port town badly hit by the double disaster.
Before the baby’s discovery, searchers found at least 2,000 bodies cast up along the shoreline of the badly-hit Miyagi prefecture.
All had drowned, according to police, and as the search through the debris continued throughout the day officials conceded that what had started out as a rescue effort would become a recovery operation.
And then came the cry of a little girl.
‘Her discovery has put a new energy into the search,’ said a civil defence official. ‘We will listen, look and dig with even more diligence after this.’


[[Devastation: A 'HELP' sign is written on the ground of a primary school (bottom of picture, centre) near the coast in tsunami-hit Ishinomaki. A baby girl was remarkably found wrapped in a pink jacket after three days alone]]

[DougLikesBMW]

Cat survives tsunami on a wall.

p.s. I hope it's cool if I post media I see in this thread. Not all of us have time to go looking for these things so I figure may as well use this thread as a place to share info/media like we have been.

[FStop7]

Looking at these tsunami photos. I've seen in person the immediate aftermath of a category 4 hurricane and an EF-4 tornado. Neither of those come close to what these tsunami photos show. The way everything is just obliterated down to piles of sticks, it's unbelievable.

[nightfx]

Originally Posted by DougLikesBMW

Cat survives tsunami on a wall.

p.s. I hope it's cool if I post media I see in this thread. Not all of us have time to go looking for these things so I figure may as well use this thread as a place to share info/media like we have been.

Cute even in times like this.

[DougLikesBMW]

Originally Posted by nightfx

Cute even in times like this.

this cat lives in japan, surely he has played super mario or at the very least watched someone play it. doesnt he know that he can just jump up the blocks of weeds to safety?

silly kitty

[DougLikesBMW]

Link to live feed at a train station...pretty creepy, all you hear is the wind and the occasional crow.

http://www.nttfukushima.com/live/jr_aizu/Default.html