Coffee Break #55 More rain coming!!

Yes, Northern Lights were visible in the upper states. Also, an Indonesian volcano erupted shortly after the quake.

3000 people have been asked to evacuate near the plant.

Most of the western SA countries are now bracing.

Hawaii.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150162786888939&set=a.156904578938.143222.129803473938&theater&pid=8085598&id=129803473938

Ugh! Those things have unbelievable power!

Things are just compounding.....terrible tragedy! I remember the Good Friday tsunami that struck Alaska.....I have dreamt many times of standing on a cliff by the sea, & watching helplessly as a tsunami is approaching....

Did you see the poor people trying to out-drive and out-run the wave?? How horrible.

Yep, all that debris in the water makes it almost impossible to survive.

- That was a great link Jen, Thanks!

My friend has a friend in Japan she's been trying to get in touch with her, no luck so far

hope she hears good news, sending prayers.

Wow - meltdown is possible now. Can it get any worse?!!

yep... it probably can.

Quake has been revised again - to 9.1.

meltdown...of nuclear reactors? Last report I saw said they were stable.

Yes, meltdown. No AC power for hours. Pumps not running. Coolant can run out and heat can build up to disastrous levels. Hours to fix it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/us-japan-quake-nuclear-us-analysis-idUSTRE72B04C20110312

Nukes in very seismically active areas is not the best of ideas.

Cannot imagine the military cannot use choppers to get generators there quickly.

Not good, if Victor is worried about the nuke it's not good...

Yes - I know too much!

radiation release comes over the Pacific driven by wind currents.

Yes - so California should take a real deep breath. ^_^

Hope they do, Japan has had more than it's fair share of radiation poisoning. Actually, not hope they do, they MUST.

Yes, that's what I meant earlier about being doubly tragic.

Did you see that huge whirlpool? So freaky.

We have some relatives in OR & WA, away from the coast but they use the air. :(

Sort of like Poe's 'Descent into the Maelstrum'.

Yes, I saw the whirlpool, I've seen waterspouts in the Caribbean and Florida, but that one is about 4x the size of what a waterspout makes!

wow is that bus crash bad on 95

said 6 were dead so far

the bus is cut in half... fell on it's side and got sheared by a sign post.. just nuts.. this article says 13 dead

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/six-dead-as-bus-overturns-on-bronx-highway/

Haiti, Chile now Japan - whats next?

hope no more aftershocks in NZ.

On a more upbeat note, the dead-in-the-water Huskies revived & are playing for the Big East Championship tonight.....

Go UCONN!!!!

Don't forget to "spring forward" before bed tonight!

Man got hit with the stomach bug thingy Thursday night...slept most of yesterday. I thought I was feeling better earlier then wham it hits you again...body aches, chills headache...Hockey tonight, and my husband watches with his dad, so I have the remote all to myself for some mindless entertainment if I keep my eyes open long enough.

Sorry you're feeling poorly Ronnie, hope you feel better soon!

Yes, awful about that bus. 14 dead.

I know that area where the bus overturned very well.
- Crazy drivers out there driving big rigs. The day before yesterday I was driving in the am when this 18 wheel flatbed truck flew past me in the pouring rain, he was cutting in front of cars left & right with practically no room left in between. - like he was driving a compact. In the pouring rain he would not have been able to stop even if he wanted to. People are becoming less and less patient, and more and more nuts!