We're still fine here. The affected nuclear plants are pretty far away from us, and if anything more serious does happen to them, the wind is forecast to be blowing away from us, toward the plants for the next several days. So we should be out of the path of any radiation.
As for news, we're basically getting updates from CNN, NY Times, etc. (seeing as we still don't speak any Japanese). The people at the lodge who do know Japanese don't seem to know too much more than we're getting, either. Kind of just a wait-and-see period.
We did make it out to the mountain today. Really quiet for a weekend, but otherwise it was just a calm, bright, sunny day. Pretty surreal, knowing there's so much destruction a couple hundred miles away.
Greg and Tommy... I've been reading your blog and am glad to know that you are okay. Stay safe... you are movie stars now and have a career to consider. Eileen Sullivan
ReplyDeleteYeah, Tom and Greg - you will have great stories for your kids and grandkids. Stay safe like Eileen said.
ReplyDeleteAnne Pouch
as long as the stories aren't explaining their radioactive mutations...
ReplyDeleteanother update, just so things are a bit more clear:
ReplyDeletewe are southwest of these furthest two earthquakes (2 hour drive or so), so luckily quite far from the major damage.
another update, we are southwest of those two furthest west earthquakes.
http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/japan-earthquake-tsunami-2011-map/index.html
thanks for all your concerns, and at the moment the nuclear plants don't seem like they would be any danger to us either based on how far away they are and also due to the fact that the wind is blowing directly away from us.
Tom & Gregg...not for nothing...time to get the $#@!!!%% home boys!!!
ReplyDeleteSue Cataldo