i was standing in my garage last night thinking the exact same thing what if...

need to re-pack the family BOB. maybe adding hardhats for everyone isn't such a bad idea. need to refill the propane tanks and pick up a connector hose for the coleman stove. those trees won't last long, especially when people start fighting over the wood. we need a better way to secure the house and protect ourselves. do we really have enough bottled water/water pur tabs. need to check with the kid's new school to find out if their nuke emergency evac plan is the same as his old school.

i've got friends and family over there. everyone that i know made it through unhurt and property at least some what intact. some were facing a long trek home.

the pressing challenges for those people right now seems to be on-going aftershocks and the risk of another tsunami, getting home, lack of power, limited food and water, rationed gasoline, hygene and sanitation, and the looming question of radiation.

i wonder about those whose homes were turned to rubble or ended up under water. things are even less straight forward for them.