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13-03-2011 14:08
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13-03-2011 17:07
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If any country in the world can recover from the effects of this type of natural disaster, Japan can. As much as I gasp in horror at the footage as I am sure many of us all have, I am also amazed at how little damage has been done in the bigger cities like Tokyo by the constant tremors.
And they are constant. Every message I get from friends over there begins and ends with 'and there's another one'....
Due to the nature of their often violent landscape they have learned the best methods of building so the least amount of life is lost. Unfortunately... there is no engineering feat that will protect from tsunami *sigh*
However, that said... I was in Kobe a year to the day after their earthquake that claimed over 6000 lives and destroyed a very large portion of the city. A few buildings that had a definite...lean.... were the only signs left of it. They had rebuilt so much in so little time it was awe inspiring.
Of course, there was no threat of nuclear meltdown either and that, along with a possible major tremor on the Kanto plain (which would effect Tokyo proper), is the major worry right now.
Like the floods in Queensland (and pretty much every other state of Australia) at the beginning of the year and the quake in Christchurch, my heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones and seen their entire lives destroyed in a blink of an eye. But the one thing I have learned this year very well - we as a species survive. We pick ourselves up, we dust ourselves off and we grieve. Then we start again.
Nature has proven she is one tough old lady and a force to be reckoned with. We can never forget that compared to her we are nothing but blips on the landscape, her landscape, and we must be respectful of that at all times.
We are just happen to very stubborn and tenacious blips.
Doesn't stop me from wondering what she has in store for us next month though...
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14-03-2011 00:51
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