This afternoon Wakana managed to get in touch with her parents. They are fine. They suffered very little damage and were without power for a while. When the power came on at 4:00 AM they quickly cooked some food both to use up what might thaw in the freezer and to prepare for the next power outage.

Aunt Sachiko joined them today and will stay with them for a few days. She didn't sleep at all last night in the car but had a good nap today at her brother's house.

Charlie, you were right. Japan is one of the safest nuclear power generators in the world and now they have lost control of one plant and may lose the other. All of their redundant safety systems failed. The Fukushima plant has one reactor that has blown its containment building apart and they are worried about the other five reactors on site. They've evacuated people for 20 kilometers around the northern plant and 10 kilometers around the southern plant in Fukushima.

Damn! I wish you and the Clamshell Alliance could have been wrong on this one.