THANK YOU for this post. While my heart aches for the people of Japan, I am also cheering them on. They are prepared, organized, motivated, and highly capable people - this disaster is TERRIBLE and nothing can mitigate the losses they've suffered - but it could have been so much worse. I'd say, given the circumstances, they are handling things with as much energy and grace as possible. It drives me crazy watching the American mainstream media pandering to the sensational, using alarmist language to describe things they blatantly DO NOT UNDERSTAND. The nuclear situation is especially frustrating - my dad is a well-regarded nuclear engineer so I tend to take comments like "This could be another Chernobyl!" personally.
But yes - I hope our country recognizes the importance of preparation and I hope cuts aren't made to long-term technology developments that might maintain the integrity of our power grid and infrastructure in a disaster.
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Date: 2011-03-15 07:40 pm (UTC)But yes - I hope our country recognizes the importance of preparation and I hope cuts aren't made to long-term technology developments that might maintain the integrity of our power grid and infrastructure in a disaster.