Lord Elwrind
Conceptual Misconception
Daring Scylla
Thank you for the information. It is useful, though very, very painful as well. You're welcome. I agree. But I think it's important to really understand the damages. D:
Maybe you should print all that out and post it up at word.
Personally, I keep getting the feeling a lot more people had died from this. I hear a report that an entire fishing village is gone and that it had 15,000 residents. This isnt even over for them as the death toll will probably continue to rise as more people who are in shelters are suffering from the cold and lack of food and water because it is becoming difficult to get supplies to where they are needed most because gas to fuel the truckloads are little to non-existent as people have been hoarding.
Heard on the news on Saturday the deliveries of food and water to people in shelters have slowed down.
Well, because I work in Korea, not all the Koreans I work with are sad about this happening, unfortunately. They continue to look at Japan as one whole evil entity because of the past (and in some ways the present) between the two countries, and see Japan suffering rather than human beings. Instead they should take into consideration that not everyone in Japan hates Korea. Not everyone in Japan is glad Japan invaded Korea long ago and did all types of terrible things. All countries mess up. It's part of being human. If any country that was ever wronged by another country held a grudge like that, no one in the world would talk to anyone outside their own country. It would be like a falling out between friends where you stop talking for weeks and ignore each other.
Anyway, I think how the police are taking these numbers are based on how many bodies they find, how many people have been reported by family or friends as missing, and the count of the damage to the structures seem pretty accurate. So, if a family or friend doesn't report someone as missing, they aren't counted in the missing toll. I feel that most of the "missing" are actually dead. D: The families don't know where they are, and their bodies haven't been recovered yet. But I hope that this isn't the case for all of them.
A lot of people have left Japan recently. I know around 30,000 people have relocated here to South Korea in the past week. Possibly more have since I last paid attention to the amount of refugees moving here. So I hope the supplies are slowing down because less people need aid, not because it's not available. My friends in Japan say that they have enough supplies and everything is pretty calm. They keep reminding me not to pay attention to the news too. Haha. They've also told me that Japan is expecting another major earthquake to close the gap that was made in the plates... No one knows when it will happen yet, but most people I talk to (including myself), hope it's sooner than later. Rebuilding to have it all destroyed again would not be good. Especially considering how dangerous it would be if workers were rebuilding when it struck and they had no way to evacuate the scaffolding or equipment in time...
-sigh- I hope these catastrophes are done for this year after this...
Sorry for the wall of text! D:
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