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Mar. 11th, 2011 09:38 am8.9 earthquake in northeastern Japan and tsunami warnings up and down the Pacific coast. I think I kinda want to throw up.
My family's in thesouthern central part of Japan, in Shizuoka near Mt. Fuji, so I think they should be fine since the news says most of the damage was in northeastern Japan; I'm reasonably certain no one's near enough to the coast to be badly affected by the tsunami, and my immediate family in Washington is way inland, although my grandmother's on the coast in Bremerton, but it looks like it won't be major waves by the time they reach the Washington coast. No family in Hawaii right now, or elsewhere in the Pacific Rim that I know of. (I think my cousin might be in Los Angeles visiting a friend, but I'm not sure if he's still there and if he is, he's probably glad he's there instead of Tokyo!)
I'm trying to remember what my parents' schedule is in the morning so I can call home, though they probably don't know anymore than I do unless my mother's family called her after the quake.
(Gods, my family's luck with earthquakes -- the Shizuoka quake in 2009 was centered where my family lives; my mother was freaking out because she couldn't get through to her family, and it turned out that the phone in the temple had come unplugged and that was why they couldn't call her. My father was in Thailand in 2004 when the Indonesia quake happened; my mother and I didn't know if he'd gone to the seacoast for Christmas and so we didn't know if he'd been in the area when the tsunami hit until we finally got through to him because he never thought to call and let us know that he'd stayed in Khon Kaen. In 2001, when the Nisqually earthquake hit Olympia and western Washington, I was in elementary school; we just got shakes in Ellensburg, but while all the other parents called in the school to panic, my mother didn't because she hadn't even noticed that there was an earthquake because it was small compared to the ones in Japan. Near misses.)
ETA: Have phoned home. My mother hasn't heard from her parents, which seems to be a good sign; we'll hopefully know more this evening after she's had time to contact them. The temple's been getting a new roof, but she thinks that's probably done (since that could have been dangerous during an earthquake). Low tsunami danger in that area. I've been watching the Seattle Times website a little anxiously for news on tsunami in Washington, but it looks like (so far) there's no noticeable wave increase, although there have been evacuations in two coastal counties to be on the safe side. I live in New Orleans, man, I know the wisdom of evacuating at a chance of danger. (Now, this would be a really bad time for Mt. Rainier to start rumbling. I don't think I could take that strain.)
ETA 2: Got through to cousin in NYC, who says that the family's fine and the only way to get through to Japan is to text them. I've just about hit my emotional limit for the day, as my phone has decided to stop taking a charge and the Verizon store won't replace my charger because it's too old and my phone because the account is my mother's info and I don't have that and couldn't get hold of anyone in my family. It's a forty minute walk from campus -- the first time I streetcarred down -- and I'm kind of worried about going down again if the info isn't right this time, since I got my mother's social off my FAFSA info. (Roommate won't drive me, of course. Roommate has a date tonight.)
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I'm trying to remember what my parents' schedule is in the morning so I can call home, though they probably don't know anymore than I do unless my mother's family called her after the quake.
(Gods, my family's luck with earthquakes -- the Shizuoka quake in 2009 was centered where my family lives; my mother was freaking out because she couldn't get through to her family, and it turned out that the phone in the temple had come unplugged and that was why they couldn't call her. My father was in Thailand in 2004 when the Indonesia quake happened; my mother and I didn't know if he'd gone to the seacoast for Christmas and so we didn't know if he'd been in the area when the tsunami hit until we finally got through to him because he never thought to call and let us know that he'd stayed in Khon Kaen. In 2001, when the Nisqually earthquake hit Olympia and western Washington, I was in elementary school; we just got shakes in Ellensburg, but while all the other parents called in the school to panic, my mother didn't because she hadn't even noticed that there was an earthquake because it was small compared to the ones in Japan. Near misses.)
ETA: Have phoned home. My mother hasn't heard from her parents, which seems to be a good sign; we'll hopefully know more this evening after she's had time to contact them. The temple's been getting a new roof, but she thinks that's probably done (since that could have been dangerous during an earthquake). Low tsunami danger in that area. I've been watching the Seattle Times website a little anxiously for news on tsunami in Washington, but it looks like (so far) there's no noticeable wave increase, although there have been evacuations in two coastal counties to be on the safe side. I live in New Orleans, man, I know the wisdom of evacuating at a chance of danger. (Now, this would be a really bad time for Mt. Rainier to start rumbling. I don't think I could take that strain.)
ETA 2: Got through to cousin in NYC, who says that the family's fine and the only way to get through to Japan is to text them. I've just about hit my emotional limit for the day, as my phone has decided to stop taking a charge and the Verizon store won't replace my charger because it's too old and my phone because the account is my mother's info and I don't have that and couldn't get hold of anyone in my family. It's a forty minute walk from campus -- the first time I streetcarred down -- and I'm kind of worried about going down again if the info isn't right this time, since I got my mother's social off my FAFSA info. (Roommate won't drive me, of course. Roommate has a date tonight.)