Originally Posted by ryuhebi13 (Post 857112)

Oh jeez. History not a strong point then :)

Originally Posted by Wendy88 (Post 857147)

I hope my friends fiancee's sister is okay. they've not heard anything from her since after the earthquake. are all the tele-communications dead in fukushima?

Originally Posted by RealJames (Post 857158)

the landlines are out but in a lot of the shelters there are free phones and cell phones still work if you can get a charge.
171 is the find/claim a person number, if you speak japanese

Originally Posted by MMM (Post 857162)

Are they able to make international calls from there?

Originally Posted by MMM (Post 857162)

Are they able to make international calls from there?

Originally Posted by Nyororin (Post 856847)

I think in general the image of natural disasters is shaped by those that are familiar... In the case of large scale events like this, it seems the common image in the mind of the public is falling down buildings in the middle east. Enough people have commented to me about the difference in the appearance of survivors that I am pretty sure this is the case. They expect to see people covered in dust from disintegrated concrete buildings, in a desert like setting. The environment in Japan is different, and the disaster itself was of a different type. Most of the people who survived weren`t pulling themselves out from the rubble - they fled and so were not washed away. They were never "dirty" to begin with... And while there is plenty of mud, there isn`t concrete dust floating around.

Originally Posted by keeperxiii (Post 857177)

Thanks for clearing that up, I just thought that because I had the idea that Japan was in worse shape.