On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:46:17 -0800 (PST), Dawlish wrote:

I'm watching this in shock. Goodness knows how many must have died.

It'll be a good few more than the 26 that I last heard reported a few
hours ago...

The footage of the tsunami is just horrendous.

Terrible, the aerial stuff of the ten foot or more wave slowly and
relentlessly flowing across flat farm land destroying everything in
its path is, as you say, horrendous. There are a few vehicles driving
about one I notice trying to make a dash for it but getting cut off.
I didn't see people running but no doubt people were dieing down
there.

Being shallow and relatively close to the coast I wonder how much
warning people would have had? Japan does educate it's people very
well about earthquakes and has a good warning system. There doesn't
seem much activity for mid afternoon, so hopefully most of the
population have manged to "run for the hills".

They won't have much but firewood to come back to though.

My heart just goes out to Japan today.

Hopefully the tsunami warning will be heeded by other countries
around the Pacific basin.

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.