Japan...some thoughts

I was stunned last week when Japan sustained such a large earthquake and tsaumi, surely way and above what a country ought to be asked to stand. Now I am still stunned this week and it feels like a large wave knocked me over and pinned me down on the seabed because of this nuclear reactor accident. It just gets worse and worse. I am seeing a lot of snow now where Sendai (northern part of the island that suffers the most) and people just wondering around lost.

I think about how rescuers must think when they survey the endless rubble of houses, vehicles and such as far as the eye can see. How do you overcome how hopeless it is. How do you cope with the feeling that there may be people just hanging on in that rubble by a miracle and you are unable to find them, much less save them. How does a rescuer place him or herself in danger climbing in and out of the debris only to find dead people under it.

How does it feel to have escaped that murderous wave only to find yourself alone, family lost, everything you own gone, just walking up and down with no idea of what to do next but to walk back and forth. Maybe someone might take you by the elbow and steer you to a shelter where there is a little food to eat, a little tea to drink...maybe? With all the hungry homeless filling these shelters already, how do you hold out your hand for food when there is next to nothing and a hungry child is next to you crying?

Added to that is the radiation from that nuclear plant....nobody is explaining in detail how much radiation there is, the true condition of those reactors and what is a safe distance to be away from them. All those people plus rescuers, reporters, military and so forth could be walking under a deadly reactive cloud but nobody knows for sure, and if they do, nobody is telling.

I could carry on and on but this is all I will say here, there is too much going on in my head that is impossible to get my brain around. What has happened to Japan can happen here in the US or any other country. The unfathomable thing is, the impossible is still going on there, There are still after shocks and even more earthquakes even. There is no food, no gas, the weather is against them and now there is this radiation thing. You can't see, smell or feel radiation until after it affects you. An invisible, undetectable monster spreading over the whole planet