TEXT FROM JAPAN

27 March 11 | Gary

[Suck My AR-16]

A text message from my nephew in Japan. He works for a contractor that services news organizations worldwide.

MARK - ARRIVED HERE ONE WEEK AFTER QUAKE. 145 MILES FROM REACTORS. AREA IS INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE COMPOUND. WE HAVE TRUCKS FOOD WATER FUEL GENERATORS BATTERIES BEDDING HYGIENE CAMERAS DISH AND RADIOS DROPPED HERE 8 DAYS BEFORE QUAKE. 2 - 6.0+ QUAKES HERE SINCE. BUILDINGS OK. 3 NEWS TEAMS USING OUR STUFF. BUSY. NRC AND DOD HAS WAREHOUSES IN HERE. DOD JUST SET UP SECURITY. NRC GUYS HERE ARE PISSED. THEY WANTED MILES OF TRASH BURNED BEFORE IT COULD BLOW AND FLOAT INTO THE NORTH PACIFIC GYRE. NOW IT IS CONTAMINATED AND BURNING MAY BE BAD. US STATE DEPARTMENT AND JAP GOVERNMENT STOPPED THE BURN. RESUPPLY HERE SLOW. BE HOME MAY 15-20. BACK HERE IF CONTRACTS SIGNED BY JUNE. GITD GARY-

[Suck My AR-16]

Cold Heart - Your Right

NEWS
Floating debris from tsunami-hit Japan could reach US west coast.

http://digitaljournal.com/article/305275

Curt Ebbesmeyer, a Seattle oceanographer who has spent decades tracking flotsam said the the debris will likely hit Washington, Oregon and California and will be carried by ocean current towards Hawaii and back to Asia.
“Ebbesmeyer, who has traced Nike sneakers, plastic bath toys and hockey gloves accidentally spilled from Asia cargo ships, is now tracking the massive debris field moving across the Pacific Ocean from Japan. He relies heavily on a network of thousands of beachcombers such as Anderson to report the location and details of their finds”, Philstar.com reports.
“If you put a major city through a trash grinder and sprinkle it on the water, that’s what you’re dealing with,” he said.
As to whether any of the debris might be radioactive from the devastation at Japanese nuclear power plants, James Hevezi, chair of the American College of Radiology Commission on Medical Physics, said there could be, the report added.

[Cold Heart]

I’m going to avoid the sneakers when I beach comb.