Japan Quake
Mar. 11th, 2011 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beth_leonardI spent far too much of today reading news and watching videos about the Japanese earthquake. I'm really glad Japan is not Haiti in terms of building standards. I pray for those who lost lives/property in the quake, and I give thanks for those who did not.
I'm also giving thanks good building standards here too. Someday our time will come, and I can only hope that our buildings will stand up as well as those in much of Japan did. We had our house looked at a few years ago, and it's bolted to the foundation and generally well-reinforced. The contractor who looked at it found a few things that could be better, but I've never actually had the work done. The e-mail has been sitting in my inbox for over 2 years now, just scheduling it never seems to be a high priority.
I really need to finish earthquake-proffing our shelves. I bought the hardware several years ago, but the only ones I've done are those in my bedroom and office.
The red cross is accepting donations, and if I could find my phone I'd text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation several times until our balance was back down. The phone costs $5/month and minutes cost about $0.20/minute and come out of that amount, so it builds up reserves and I bleed them off the phone during natural disasters. I'll inquire at church as well. One does not recover from disasters of this magnitude without help. One never really recovers emotionally.
I'm trying to decide about the potential reactor meltdown. I can't trust the news coverage. So much of it reminds me of this XKCD comic. I hope there is nothing to fear.
--Beth
I'm also giving thanks good building standards here too. Someday our time will come, and I can only hope that our buildings will stand up as well as those in much of Japan did. We had our house looked at a few years ago, and it's bolted to the foundation and generally well-reinforced. The contractor who looked at it found a few things that could be better, but I've never actually had the work done. The e-mail has been sitting in my inbox for over 2 years now, just scheduling it never seems to be a high priority.
I really need to finish earthquake-proffing our shelves. I bought the hardware several years ago, but the only ones I've done are those in my bedroom and office.
The red cross is accepting donations, and if I could find my phone I'd text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation several times until our balance was back down. The phone costs $5/month and minutes cost about $0.20/minute and come out of that amount, so it builds up reserves and I bleed them off the phone during natural disasters. I'll inquire at church as well. One does not recover from disasters of this magnitude without help. One never really recovers emotionally.
I'm trying to decide about the potential reactor meltdown. I can't trust the news coverage. So much of it reminds me of this XKCD comic. I hope there is nothing to fear.
--Beth
