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Poor Japan.
What else can we say?
Theirs is a society which tries so hard to get it right and then this kind of natural diaster happens and they find themselves having once again to bury their dead and rebuild their cities.
Bassed on the reports we get their government's and their people's responses have been heroic.
One cannot help but wonder how well our government (and people) would react if the tsuami had hit the West Coast with the devasting effect it hit Japan.
If New Orleans is our guide, the answer is not nearly so heroically.
Certainly, if I lived on the west coast of the US, I'd be asking what the plan is for a similar event here. A major quake off the coast of Oregon/Washington is overdue. It's fine and dandy to tell the public to have emergency provisions for 3 days... but we really should be telling people that if they get a Tsunami warning, get the fuck out of the area and head to high ground. We should be openly telling the public how to react.