Well if there's one thing I know about the Japanese, it's that they're incredibly good organisers. All it takes is some decent leadership from the top, so fingers crossed that they get that.

The force of the tsumani etc was overpowering. Modern ships etc were swept away. I watched the live pics..horrific to folk in the path..

We're currently watching the Japanese news on Fuji TV (translated live by my boyfriend). They're going around the sites which were filmed 12 hours ago to see how things look now.

It does shame us in our whinging ...oh ! some snow/rain  etc! well compared to what those poor folk are going through..maybe we should shut up..

One of the sequences I found really shocking was the one where the black wave of sludge was sweeping across fields in the countryside, and suddenly I realised that at the top of the picture was a huge ship being carried along. That's going to take some moving to get it back to the sea.

Petercat hope you and your's are ok.

All the ones we've managed to get hold of are fine, thank goodness. There are still some relatives we haven't heard from, but communications are still patchy.

Keep us posted Peter Re- your previous post, i know they will put everything into getting everything back to normal but the nuke stations and radiation leaks are someting i doubt they had ever considered.

If you want to see more up-to-date pics than on the BBC, have a look at http://www.fujitv.co.jp/index.html. No translation, I'm afraid.

Goes without saying PC

Those fields- i watched this as well, the only income those farmers get If they are still alive how will they manage? This is a nightmare scenario. Dreading on hearing the latest news in the morning. Wonder if this will affect Red Nose Day? Lets see how the Channels report on this? I would not know where to start if it was me.

Apparently one of the things making it more difficult to help people is that there's a huge area where all the major roads have been destroyed, so they can't get rescue vehicles through.

Also there are hundreds of square miles of farmland which have been ruined by seawater, so food prices could rocket.

Terrifying, Jonesy.

Am not getting a Flash player feed from this Peter.

Oh

I am watching this site
http://www.kyodonews.jp/english/

I saw that, then it took a lorry along with it that had been driving along and in the right of the frame it showed some poor man trying to out run the sea....

Thanks for that, erinp.

Delighted to hear that your friends are safe and well PC.
Thoughts are with  your partner ,it must be a difficult time for him .

I am one of the lucky ones along with most folk on here who can say goodnight and sleep tonight. My thoughts will still be with those in Japan who have to continue to live with this for years to come. My thoughts are with them and FMs on here who have relatives out there. Goodnight and God Bless all those affected.

Nite Jonsey,sleep well.

One boat found and all 81 on board air lifted.

Thank gawd for that. It still makes me wonder where the other ship has gone with 100 people on board hough 

That's great

Glad to hear your friends/family are safe, PC. 

My daughter's friend lives in Tokyo, but she hasn't heard any news yet.

I'm presuming the family are safe, but it is still nagging at me.

Bloody awful situation for the country.

I'm exhausted. We've been watching the news almost constantly since 11am yesterday. Time for bed, methinks.

There has been a big explosion at a Japanese nuclear power plant, and the authorities are struggling to prevent a meltdown.

I'm watching this at the moment yogi...  I'm getting flashbacks to 9/11 - the realisation that it only 'looks' like a disaster movie.         PC - thoughts with  you and your bf

I know what you mean, Kaffy.

Ho,y sh1t.  this is bad bad bad...now the nuclear power stations?!!  And I think there is probably more to come. 

Peter C    warm     and   to you and your close ones through this ordeal.


You too Rawky - hope your friends are OK.

Terrible terrible news...  This is going to take a lot of recovering from.

It really is on a scale that hasn't been seen before I think.
I, too, thought of Peter Cat when I first heard! to you, Rawky and all the people there.

Oh my God!  Sky news has just issued some 'breaking news....'  (2pm GMT) 9500 people from a coastal town called Minamisanriku are totally unnaccounted for, and nobody can figure where they are... swept out to sea probably

http://www.express.co.uk/posts...own-following-quake-

This is just so horrible. 

For those of you on Facebook, this is the English language FB page of one of the main Japanese newspapers: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/AJW.Asahi

awful thing to have happened.

thinking of all those with friends/family out there and hope they are all safe

Four people in the plant were hurt in the explosion and 3 outside have been affected by radiation. Apparently, it's now reached the stage where they have to take the most drastic measures to stop it going critical. They're going to cool it down using seawater, which will make it impossible to re-use the plant afterwards.

Oh, and there are still quakes going on, both in the north and in Tokyo.