On Friday, we had so much going on that I couldn't even watch television, with the cheer tryouts, and rehearsal dinner, and wedding... But yesterday, when I finally had time to watch some of the videos.... this is tragedy like I have never seen. This is devastation that I cannot recall in my lifetime... I cannot IMAGINE enduring one of the worst earthquakes on record, and then before anyone could get to the survivors, a powerful (and this is an understatement) tsunami rolls in like an angry monster, devouring everything in sight. Then, the grand finale, like the final fireworks on the 4th of July, is the explosions and threat of a nuclear meltdown...
It is so surreal watching the videos, safely ensconced on the other side of the world; entire towns being swallowed up. It's like the scariest Hollywood movie you've ever seen, only it's a million times worse and it's REAL. I keep watching all of this and thinking, WHAT are they going to do with all those bodies?? Will they disperse them to different countries for cremation? And what about the tons and tons of vehicles and boats and buildings? Where will they dump all of these? the ocean? If they start getting dumptrucks and filling them up, where will they take it? Japan is an ISLAND.
And do these people have insurance? And does insurance even cover tsunami's, since they are considered an "act of God." And isn't all the paperwork destroyed with everything else? How does a town recover from this? Won't they all have to move somewhere else and be dislocated? And what about the disease that will surely set in from all of the toxic garbage? And right now, there is no food or water. How long will it take these people to get new houses? new jobs? new cars? new clothes? new lives? And experts are saying that they will have post traumatic syndrome when the ones that DO live, walk away with just the clothes on their backs.
It seems too much to wrap my brain around...
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