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This is not America. This is Chile. 

Do you know why this could not be America? 

via cobb.typepad.com

[Friday, October 21st RattlerGator comment using Android phone while trying, and failing, to figure out how to post from said phone] Not quite sure what Cobb is getting at in his post but I wanted to use this as a test of Typepad's re-bogging tool using my Android phone. Gorgeous photo, setting might run into trouble with American environmentalists.

[Saturday, October 22nd comment using my laptop] Checking Cobb's comment after the post, I was correct. That concrete and steel jutting out into the Pacific would be supremely problematic, I suspect. Coastal development is a flash point for controversy. The push would have been to have it set well back from the ocean.

Forecast today for Cavancha Beach in Iquique, Chile -- 65 for a high, 58 for a low, and partly cloudy skies.

Phenomenal Tsunami Video from Japan

The situation in Japan is still unfolding but this new video of the tsunami hitting a Japanese town bring home the unrelenting terror that must have been experience by millions of Japanese who had to deal with this disaster. It's awe-inspiring to watch the steady, methodical advance of the destruction:

Wow.