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8.9 magnitude earthquake hits the coast of Japan, causing 10-meter tsunami waves
onewheelwizzard:
One of my best friends (and a member of these forums who never posts anymore, Clintaga) is getting a 2-week all-expenses-paid trip to Japan to help build temporary housing for displaced villagers. A friend of ours who we know from Burning Man (who does quite well for himself as the head of a software company) has decided that the best way to help is to go over there and build yurts and shit, so he recruited my buddy and another burner friend of ours to go with him.
It sounds freaking sweet if you ask me.
E. Spaceman:
There is hardly anything that is freaking sweet about living in Japan right now.
pwhodges:
I'm sure we all understood that really, but it was unfortunately phrased.
Nodaisho:
--- Quote from: The Seldom Killer on 15 Mar 2011, 02:35 ---
--- Quote from: Spluff on 15 Mar 2011, 00:50 ---The level of preparedness of most countries for this sort of thing varies directly with how likely they are to occur
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Interestingly enough, recent and new nuclear power stations in the UK and the rest of Europe are supposed to be built to the same siesmic standards as those in Japan, even though the highest siesmic activity recorded is in the magnitude of 100th of the scale.
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And Switzerland is much less likely to have a tidal wave flood the backup generators.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 18 Mar 2011, 04:43 ---I expect Joe meant it sounds nice to go and help people, not that it sounds sweet to live in a yurt rather than a house.
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Let's be honest and say that Joe probably also thinks that, in certain circumstances, living in a yurt is sweet as all hell.
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