Comments on: Japanese Disaster Micro-Update

By: alex_mayorga

alex_mayorga — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:40:55 +0000

Just wanted to let you know of the “mobalization” typo on the next post.

I happen to be a part time ESL teacher in a “emerging and developing economy” and couldn’t help but wonder if you offer special pricing for Bingo Card Creator.

Glad to know you’re safe and sound =)

By: Mary Zulli

Mary Zulli — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:57:35 +0000

Thank you, Patrick, for your calming essays. I have visited Japan and noticed that so much is run using electricity, even the toilets! Are the rolling blackouts causing disruptions that you would trace to the extensive electronic controls, etc. E.g., I wonder if biometric locks stopped working; did people have regular key? Just wondering…

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Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:23:01 +0000

[…] honestly, no one has said it more succinctly than Patrick, the gaijin living in Japan (here and here): A few friends of mine have suggested coming to Japan to pitch in with the recovery efforts. I […]

By: Erika Price

Erika Price — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:08:19 +0000

Thank you very much for this Patrick. I’ve written a blog post summarising the bare facts but this statement, together with your “perspective” post, is really helpful and informative. I’m trying to increase awareness of the need to raise funds to support the relief effort, and with your permission I’d like to include a link to this and to your “perspective” post too – my blog post is here: http://erikapricedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/03/japan-earthquake-tsunami-what-happened.html

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:11:54 +0000

I knew more than the basic, knew where Tokyo, and Kyoto, and Okinawa are, but have a tendency to loose the prefectures, etc., although I often recognize them, or they sound famililiar when I see them reported. And I knew there where both earthquake and tsunami drills. (And yes, knew where the word tsunami came from, but attribited typhoon to indochina, for some reason…) But the news here is uninformed, misinformed, and frankly, contradicting itself about the level of preparedness there. I was so glad to watch a vid. of the high rises swaying ( and not falling), although it did make me feel a bit odd. And I did think there had to be more in the way of both engineering and training, about earthquake reponse. Sigh. But you should listen to our news.

Are there two nuclear plants having difficulties–can’t recall what you said–that’s what we’re hearing.

Thanks for all you’ve written, thoughts and prayers with you!