I suspect there will be many, many posts all over the globe about the massive 8.9 earthquake in Japan today. In a time when we see so much of government at its worst, this was government at its most proper. I'll simply post, in admiration, this simple video via YouTube. It speaks volumes:
With the memories of the Haitian catastrophe still fresh in our minds, that makes this video all the more impressive. A truly massive earthquake hits, and the building sway with the rolling earth.
Godspeed to the Japanese people as they deal with the effects of this natural disaster.
Its weird that there are so many high scale earth quakes in resent years. Can you find any info on that is?
Posted by: Stephan Daudt | March 11, 2011 at 01:42 PM
As with the weather, but on a different rhythm, I suspect it's all cyclical. Our planet is a living thing, it wobbles and turns to regular patterns. I was just looking at a 1958 yearbook from Florida A&M the other day. In February, there was serious now in Tallahassee -- the likes I've never seen in any part of Florida in my lifetime. But, we're back in a pattern now where we get some super-cold and weird weather that is capable of producing real snow in North Florida.
So it goes.
Posted by: RattlerGator | March 11, 2011 at 02:27 PM
Hmmm..the Japanese aren't nearly as whiney as those in N'Awlins are. They are working together to solve the problem and not demanding that Tokyo solve the problem for them.
Posted by: Mary | March 15, 2011 at 06:22 PM
Hmmm, my earlier comment should have read "serious snow" rather than "serious now" of course. Hitting 50+ is hell, I tell ya.
Yeah, Mary, sometimes our individual ethos -- when warped and bastardized -- works against us. That was New Orleans and Katrina, unfortunately. "Let me sit on my ass and bitch and moan about the government" -- you don't try and score political points in situations such as that. And the Democrats did. It was really sick to me.
Posted by: RattlerGator | March 16, 2011 at 09:20 PM