Something funny about the disaster
Now don't kill me til you've read this through.
Everybody by now knows about the Earthquake & Tsunami in Japan and for me it is very shocking because I actually know people who live in Japan but thankfully none of them live near an area that has been that badly effected. Most of them just say that their house swayed back and forth and that heard all kinds of things in the news. What worries me though is that one of my friends isn't answering and no-one I know has had contact with them since the event. As far as I know she lives nowhere near the disaster but the lack of info scares me.
However, Japan has handled the disaster fantastically and I'm very proud to be so close to their country in their way of life and such. It has all gone fantastically well for a disaster, a million times better handled than the one in India. An absolutely fantastic job and it really puts the Pakistani government to shame. Sorry if that offends but you can't deny how well the Japanese have handled this.
But the weird thing is that Japan has handled the disaster so damn well that there isn't that much for the news to report about so they've started to twist the details to make it sound more exciting. I shouldn't laugh but some of the things they've said are really funny.
To start with I think I'll explain the biggest bugbear i have and that's the power plant thing.
The nuclear power plant disaster has been the biggest non-event of the whole thing. They keep talking about Chernobyl and how big a disaster that was and how the plant exploded and how it isn't working and so on.
Let me explain something to you. The reactors at this moment and I mean at the moment of typing this are fine. They are a little out of control but they have not exploded and so far they are stable enough to keep delaying a meltdown for quite a while. And before anyone asks because I know there are a lot of stupid people out there who will think this, I don't work for the Japanese government or the power company or any fucker who would benefit from lying you dumb bastards.
The reactor didn't explode like everyone has assumed by the way the news covered it. The building the reactor was in exploded because it is full of flammable materials and the building itself was frazzling hot from the heat the reactor is giving off. Remarkably the reactor itself is intact and still sealed and they are still trying to cool it down.
If the reactor really did blow up there would be a hell of a lot of fire and a huge blast. It is easy to tell that the reactor is fine by the pitifully small blast that happened to the building. Have you seen footage of a nuclear blast? Even if it's a reactor and not a bomb it blows a hell of a lot bigger than that. The framework was intact for gods sake.
EDIT:
I just saw some footage of the destroyed building on the power plant complex in Japan and thanks to my GCSE science lessons I was able to identify the reactor in the wreckage and it was just sat there right in the middle perfectly intact. Now that is fucking funny.
And as for the 160 people who may have been irradiated out of the 200,000 people who live near the plant maybe the 150 people working to stop the plant from going into meltdown might have something to do with that number eh?
Then there was this bit which made me lol. The Japanese have sent in a rescue team of Tsunami specialists 15,000 people strong. That is a fucking huge number but what made laugh was what we said about it, we have sent in 159 rescue workers to help. How are they gonna be any kind of help at all. 15,000 tsunami specialist rescue workers plus 159 generic rescue workers from England. Surely they would be much better help here and that is not being racist.
Japan can handle itself just fine. There are more rescue workers than people even effected by the disaster. 159 members of rescue teams would be much better in a country that only has about 200 yano like us for example. It's just jumping on the band wagon to a damned stupid degree.
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