A young couple prays for the victims of the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake on a tsunami barrier at Arahama Beach in Sendaii, Miyagi Prefecture. The 9.0-magnitude quake triggered a tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan, killing nearly 16,000 people and causing a nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant (Kimimasa Mayama, EPA, Shutterstock, wsj.com March 11, 2018)
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Makes me realise how lucky I am.
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Sure does
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take nothing for granted.
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RIP – thanks for the ‘reminder’…. mustn’t EVER take our luck for granted. And neither must we forget ALL those unluckier than us.
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Yes. Truth.
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So many who have gone through so much. Counting my blessings today as I watch the beautiful snowfall out my windows. Mother Nature Is so mercurial….
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Snowfall in mid March, that’s something. As to mercurial, it’s not just Mother Nature, it’s certain Humans in leadership too! 😬
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Yes, and it’s not just a skiff. We’re expecting 12-18”, maybe more. 😳 As for the humans, I will refrain from comment…
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Wow. 12-18. Big.
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Yep, ‘bigly’
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‘… causing a nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant … ‘!
The after-effects are still occuring! Heard about the oceans’ contamination?
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This is what I keep wondering about. Now that it’s not big news, we hear nothing more, but something has got to be happening there, still. Probably for a long time yet.
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I’ve read and seen pics about the extent of the damaged done to the ocean … it’s reached all the way along the west coast of the US … it’s affecting still the environment!! So sad … and harmful!! Peace …
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I wish the news media would take the time to give updates on it. Once the big hype was over, they forgot about it and moved on to the next big thing. We want and need to know these things lest we become too complacent about the seriousness of nuclear accidents.
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You got that right! Sadly this applies to everything that happens in our world … any tragedy, any accident, etc. Humankind, the news, has the shortest attention span … sadly!!
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So true!!!
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I will never forget the images from this earthquake and tsunami. I was seeing it in my dreams for months…
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Horror. I feel / see same with Chernobyl stories and photos
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That too. I was old enough and it’s still engraved deep.
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Life changes in instants. Take each moment and appreciate everything.
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Yes. So true Angeline. Miracle. All of it.
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What a way to start your day! How horrible for wonderful Japan with one incrdible disaster after another…a place of such beauty and serenity–and this! May our caring reach them….
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Yes. Yes.
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It was and is horrible…lasting scars, physically on people and the landscape and mental scars…the leaking radiation flowing around the island and across the ocean… polluting. debris, deposited, washed up on the west coast of the USA I have seen such debris) My daughter has many friends in Japan (some are American and some are Japanese) . It was hard for her waiting to find out if they were fine…some lost their homes…One must cherish each breath, as each breath is a gift…
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Yes Christie. All devastating…
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