A quake there, he said, could smash the reactor and send a radioactive cloud over Tokyo within eight hours: “We would be looking at 24 million victims and the end for Japan.”
An eruption of Mt. Fuji could send an ash cloud over Tokyo within 8 hours. So let's shut down Mt. Fuji.
日本＊ピング＊ (kono risuto ni hairitai ka detai wo shirasete kudasai : let me know if you want on or off this list)
So where is the hysteria over the tsunami walls that were not tall enough?
The local TV here (Seattle area) ran a "what if" story last night on a tsunami hitting Seattle. Lots of animation and breathless narration. Then a seismologist came on and said "in all of history, recorded or not, nothing like this has ever happened in Puget Sound and is very unlikely. To which the idiot talking head added "But you never know".
Just heard that iodine tablets are selling here as fast as the pharmacies can stock the shelves.
That's a little out of our power. Let's go the easy route then and evacuate Tokyo. Now. Just in case...