Cautiously Calm

Haven’t posted anything yet about the situation on the coast of Japan, largely because the part of the country affected isn’t the part I personally know much about – a somewhat snarky but helpful post by a gaijin blogger asked the world media to get a geography lesson – he’d been answering worried emails, which was sort of like being in Chicago and having to constantly reassure friends outside the country that he was unharmed by Katrina .

I’ve been following reports on the Fukushima reactors (mostly filtered through the thread at Making Light, which tends to be a bit calmer), but overall I’m in the camp that says this was bad, but could have been way, way worse. It could have hit a more densely-populated part of the country, or a country without such a strong infrastructure (and trust me, Japan does safety codes and disaster-preparedness very well).