While I was sleeping.

[zolac_no_miko]

Magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan, bad tsunami waves there. It's 5 a.m. in Portland, and the waves are supposed to hit Hawaii in one hour? Two hours? I'm getting mixed reports. I can't find any predictions of wave height. Evacuation is well underway and my family is not coastal, but I'm nervous obviously. Wave will hit West Coast later

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[realpestilence]

Be safe, bb, and keep in touch.

[zolac_no_miko]

I'll be fine personally, Portland's not coastal. Thank you.

[drownedcities]

Fuck. Lou's still over in Japan.

[zolac_no_miko]

She's in Tokyo, right? I heard of a roof collapse near the Diet building, and a bad fire at a steel plant near Tokyo, but Tokyo otherwise seems not as bad off as parts further north. I've heard from a friend in Tokyo and also an interview with a reporter there on NPR. Public transportation is shut down, lines of communication are pretty clogged.

[drownedcities]

I don't think she is. She used to be in a really rural area right next to the ocean or something because I remember her telling me how she used to take the ferry to and from work each morning.

She moved last year, but I'm not sure to where because that's when we both got super busy and hadn't been keeping in touch as much. So.

I e-mailed her. I gave her my phone number. I don't even know if I can get international calls on my shitty phone, but those are the only two ways of contact we have right now.

[zolac_no_miko]

Northeast coast got hit the worst. God, I hope she's okay. I've just emailed Fluffy. All fingers and toes crossed for both of them and my other friends in Japan.