This is just a cut/paste from a post I made on BakaBT with the part irrelevant to this forum cut out.
It pretty much sums up what I have to say.
Mickk @ BakaB Wrote:We are seeing a lot of coverage on TV here in Aussie.
Apparently we have some political people over in Japan right now, but they are all stuck on the 'Bullet Train' somewhere 200-300 km south of Tokyo last I heard.
The after effects don't look so bad, but that is probably because Japan is so 'earthquake aware' that most of the major buildings are built to withstand them, which is a good thing.
They showed parts of the Tokyo area and it all looked pretty normal..... until I realized there were no lights of any sort working.
Apparently all of the nuclear power plants in the area did an 'auto shutdown' when the earthquake hit, which is funny in one way, because those political people I mentioned earlier apparently took a tour of one of the plants the day before and that was explained to them.
Also shown was the sort of damage a tsunami is capable of, even a small one. Helicopter footage showed one in action, everything that wasn't physically bolted down was moving, cars, trucks, not to mention boats of all sizes and literally all kinds of floating rubbish.
To say that the situation over there is 'not good', would be a major understatement, but it looks like the Government over there is on it's toes and getting this sorted as quickly as possible.
Hope everyone over there is ok, not just our Japanese members.
