' Wrote:Just read this a few minutes ago. Damn! Also have tsunami warnings for a lot of the Pacific, to include New Zealand....like New Zealand needs more trouble!
I don't know anyone in Japan but still, I pray for their recovery and safety.
It's strange, but the first place I heard about it was on the forum of the site where I get my anime from.
At that point in time there was NOTHING on the 'regular' TV channel where I live, I switched over to SBSNEWS24 (a free to air all news channel) and there it was.
They had a live feed from a local TV network in Japan, NHK I think it was.
The lady doing the reading looked like someone had said, "We need someone to do this now, the regulars aren't here, so you are it!", thrown some makeup on her and put her in front of the camera.
She was doing a fine job of it too, despite the fact she was obviously 'flying by the seat of her pants' as they say.
My folks tell me that the church they go to have 'missionaries' in Japan at the moment, up in Hokkaido, near Sapporo. They are well away from the 'action', so I'm betting they are ok, but Mum is a little concerned.
Oddly, Australia also had a tsunami warning, but then somebody clicked that there is a really big bit of land between Australia and Japan..... it's called New Guinea, so they canceled ours.
On a side note, as soon as I saw NHK, I immediately thought of "Welcome to the NHK"..... odd that.
