The 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake & Tsunami occurred 14:46 JST (Japan Standard Time), as in 2:46 PM, on Friday, the 11th of March of the year 2011.
I was on my computer, in my room, in the house of Charlotte Battle, in PDX, when this was happening, and I asked people on Facebook if they thought Hawaii or even Oregon was going to get flooded.
After seeing disaster films, it makes you wonder.
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震 Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin), often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan Earthquake (東日本大震災 Higashi nihon daishinsai)[8][9][10][fn 1] and also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake,[11] and the 3.11 Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) on Friday 11 March 2011,[2][3][12] with the epicentre approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku and the hypocenter at an underwater depth of approximately 30 km (19 mi).[2][13] It was the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan, and the fifth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.[12][14][15] The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres (133 ft) in Miyako in Tōhoku's Iwate Prefecture,[16][17] and which, in the Sendai area, travelled up to 10 km (6 mi) inland.[18] The earthquake moved Honshu
(the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east and shifted the Earth on
its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in).[19][20][21]
On 12 September 2012, a Japanese National Police Agency report confirmed 15,883 deaths,[22] 6,145 injured,[23] and 2,667 people missing[24] across twenty prefectures,
as well as 129,225 buildings totally collapsed, with a further 254,204
buildings 'half collapsed', and another 691,766 buildings partially
damaged.[25]
The earthquake and tsunami also caused extensive and severe structural
damage in north-eastern Japan, including heavy damage to roads and
railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse.[18][26] Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said, "In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan."[27] Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water.[28]
The tsunami caused nuclear accidents, primarily the level 7 meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex, and the associated evacuation zones affecting hundreds of thousands of residents.[29][30] Many electrical generators were taken down, and at least three nuclear reactors suffered explosions
due to hydrogen gas that had built up within their outer containment
buildings after cooling system failure. Residents within a 20 km (12 mi)
radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and a 10 km
(6.2 mi) radius of the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant were evacuated. In addition, the U.S. recommended that its citizens evacuate up to 80 km (50 mi) of the plant.[31]
Early estimates placed insured losses from the earthquake alone at US$14.5 to $34.6 billion.[32] The Bank of Japan offered ¥15 trillion (US$183 billion) to the banking system on 14 March in an effort to normalize market conditions.[33] The World Bank's estimated economic cost was US$235 billion, making it the costliest natural disaster in world history.[34][35]
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Thursday, March 10, 2011
Saturday, July 24, 2010
How I Met Your Mother
I started watching the TV show series How I Met Your Mother on Saturday, the 24th of the month of July of the year 2010, shortly after working at Camp Redwood Glen in Scotts Valley, California, United States.
I was renting a room from a friend, Charlotte Battle, in Portland, from the last week of July 2010 until the early parts of June of 2011.
Battle introduced me to another show called Criminal Minds.
She let me watch movies that were memorable.
I learned much from her.
She is a great friend that knows how to listen.
She has a huge heart.
I moved into her house Saturday, the 24th of July 2010.
I was renting a room from a friend, Charlotte Battle, in Portland, from the last week of July 2010 until the early parts of June of 2011.
Battle introduced me to another show called Criminal Minds.
She let me watch movies that were memorable.
I learned much from her.
She is a great friend that knows how to listen.
She has a huge heart.
I moved into her house Saturday, the 24th of July 2010.
Saturday, April 5, 2003
Tiffany Died
I first met TIffany Rochell Cumbo (TRC) when I was about 5 years old in the year of 1990. She lived 7 houses from our trailer, and we were friends for 13 years.
Around 1998, her and her family moved to Cornelius and then to Gaston, and to possible other places, which I lost contact with her as she moved out of the neighborhood, but we reunited in 2001 and me & Bill Bailey would talk to her in person or on the phone sometimes.
Tiff may have attended my high school briefly, but then went to another high school, but I think she returned for the 2nd semester, in January 2003, which means I started seeing her again at school, which put a smile to my face.
I was looking forward to the summer of 2003 where me, Bill Bailey, and Tiffany Cumbo, were going to have adventures, or at least that was what I was hoping for. I wanted to marry Tiffany when I was eight and nine years old. I drew pictures about it, but then Tiffany started having "Other Boy Friends" with friends and neighbors like Bryan (who lived next door to me, space 164), and Juya Sa, the brother of Bhakti, who also lived next door, and Bill Bailey, and others.
My mother may have heard of some typical jealousy schemes that Tiffany was cooking with her friends, instead of being in school, at Mary's Kitchen, on Tuesday, the 1st of April of 2003, the April's Fool Day holiday. Tiffany may have been mad at her current boy friend or ex, or with friends, neighbors, class-mates, enemies, and they may have had a plan to get even with them, but I was not there and I really have no idea what was going on.
Friday, the the 4th of April, I high fived Tiff in the hallway around 1 PM as lunch was ending. That week, or that year at school, I talked to the short Tiff about her guitar, skateboard, Avril Lavigne like punk goth outfits, where she lived, and I would call her sometimes, and I was going to hang out with her more, go take a walk with her, but we seem to have schedule conflicts or I was not certain if I should bend my schedule to make something work.
That Friday night, I thought about calling her but I was instead rehearsing my lines for my church play for Sunday.
On Sunday night, the 6th of April 2003, I got praise for my partially impromptu performance during the church play that I and the youth group did, at the Community Baptist Church in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.
Monday morning, the loud-speaker announced, during the beginning of the 7:55 AM art class that I was in, that Tiffany died on Saturday, the 5th of April 2003.
I am not sure how she died.
It may have been Tylenol overdose.
It may have been drugs.
It may have been an infected scar below one of her eyes.
It may have been any of those combinations.
I encouraged people as I spoke at her funeral that year.
Around 1998, her and her family moved to Cornelius and then to Gaston, and to possible other places, which I lost contact with her as she moved out of the neighborhood, but we reunited in 2001 and me & Bill Bailey would talk to her in person or on the phone sometimes.
Tiff may have attended my high school briefly, but then went to another high school, but I think she returned for the 2nd semester, in January 2003, which means I started seeing her again at school, which put a smile to my face.
I was looking forward to the summer of 2003 where me, Bill Bailey, and Tiffany Cumbo, were going to have adventures, or at least that was what I was hoping for. I wanted to marry Tiffany when I was eight and nine years old. I drew pictures about it, but then Tiffany started having "Other Boy Friends" with friends and neighbors like Bryan (who lived next door to me, space 164), and Juya Sa, the brother of Bhakti, who also lived next door, and Bill Bailey, and others.
My mother may have heard of some typical jealousy schemes that Tiffany was cooking with her friends, instead of being in school, at Mary's Kitchen, on Tuesday, the 1st of April of 2003, the April's Fool Day holiday. Tiffany may have been mad at her current boy friend or ex, or with friends, neighbors, class-mates, enemies, and they may have had a plan to get even with them, but I was not there and I really have no idea what was going on.
Friday, the the 4th of April, I high fived Tiff in the hallway around 1 PM as lunch was ending. That week, or that year at school, I talked to the short Tiff about her guitar, skateboard, Avril Lavigne like punk goth outfits, where she lived, and I would call her sometimes, and I was going to hang out with her more, go take a walk with her, but we seem to have schedule conflicts or I was not certain if I should bend my schedule to make something work.
That Friday night, I thought about calling her but I was instead rehearsing my lines for my church play for Sunday.
On Sunday night, the 6th of April 2003, I got praise for my partially impromptu performance during the church play that I and the youth group did, at the Community Baptist Church in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA.
Monday morning, the loud-speaker announced, during the beginning of the 7:55 AM art class that I was in, that Tiffany died on Saturday, the 5th of April 2003.
I am not sure how she died.
It may have been Tylenol overdose.
It may have been drugs.
It may have been an infected scar below one of her eyes.
It may have been any of those combinations.
I encouraged people as I spoke at her funeral that year.
Friday, February 11, 1994
Rival Turf
My father bought me the video-game called Rival Turf for my 9th birthday which was the 11th of February of the year 1994, at our house, space unit 163, in the 3839 Rose Grove Mobile Home Trailer Park Community, in Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon, United States.
I started liking this fighting game for whatever the reason.
We played this on the Super Nintendo (SNES).
11th of February 1994.
163, Rose Grove, FG, OR, USA.
I started liking this fighting game for whatever the reason.
We played this on the Super Nintendo (SNES).
11th of February 1994.
163, Rose Grove, FG, OR, USA.
Friday, April 1, 1988
Sinking In Seattle
I remember being in the back seat of a blue or white 1980's car when I was three years old in the year 1988, I believe, as we rolled from Forest Grove, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, USA.
This car was full and I remember seeing a bunch of bridges, as in over-passes, highways, and ramps, since all of these things were new to me. The car was full with around 5 larger people and me, my brother, and possibly my older sister, since my younger sister (and last remaining sibling) was not born yet until 2 years after that in 1990.
There was a piano in a big room with curtains.
There was another room with many stairs which were also like seats as found at college classrooms.
There was a large pool that they placed me in, that I would have drown in if they felt like letting go of me as they tried zapping me into Kermit the Frog.
1988
Seattle, Washington, United States
By Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal
Travel
This car was full and I remember seeing a bunch of bridges, as in over-passes, highways, and ramps, since all of these things were new to me. The car was full with around 5 larger people and me, my brother, and possibly my older sister, since my younger sister (and last remaining sibling) was not born yet until 2 years after that in 1990.
There was a piano in a big room with curtains.
There was another room with many stairs which were also like seats as found at college classrooms.
There was a large pool that they placed me in, that I would have drown in if they felt like letting go of me as they tried zapping me into Kermit the Frog.
1988
Seattle, Washington, United States
By Joey Arnold, the Original Oatmeal
Travel
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