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@bo last night when it was panning it was obvious he was looking for something I could imagine the camman getting texts/calls pointing him to stuff happening inside ]
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:15:47 AM

@bo it certainly isn't random 'lets browse' type panning he was desperte to get a focus on the smoke that was coming from the front of 4 at one point a few hrs ago
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:17:09 AM

@elainekirk I agree. Also fascinating to see the long shot and get some perspective
by bo 5/15/2011 8:17:42 AM

@bo looking at your shot they look to have burried the pump arm in the roof trusses!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:18:59 AM

just sorting nicotine levels caffiene level stabalised
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:19:35 AM

With the news posted below that the GOJ has begun to evacuate more areas outside of the exclusion zone, do you think this is them being humanitarian, or do you think that they know significant releases may be coming and they want to get the children out of there first?
by bo 5/15/2011 8:26:17 AM

It looks like it. The red pump arm, and it is clearly entering into the building.
by bo 5/15/2011 8:26:53 AM

@bo it will be interesting to see if it moves. I havent read down yet so they are evacuating I wonder if that is to stop the tweets
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:31:18 AM

@bo there were many tweets yesterday that were distressing
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:31:49 AM

Morning all. Just passing by today. Have you seen this from Kyodo? "Original plan to cool Fukushima nuclear reactor to be scrapped
TOKYO, May 15, Kyodo
An adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan indicated Sunday that a plan to flood and cool the No. 1 reactor's containment vessel at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant with water will be abandoned as holes have been created by melted nuclear fuel at the bottom of the pressure vessel." english.kyodonews.jp That's all there is unless you're a subscriber. Back to square 1.
by hudebnik 5/15/2011 8:37:21 AM

@bo very sad ones people saying they were going to die from it that they had no support that they had been left there in the poison I have google search for fukushima translated to Japanese running sometimes and then translate results randomly and I am shocked past 48hrs how the mood has changed
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:37:22 AM

@bo - believe the correct terminology is 'not a twit'
by hudebnik 5/15/2011 8:38:28 AM

@hudebnik well we expected it but it isnt good is it
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:38:40 AM

@hudebnik good morning, or at least morning. @elainekirk I think people here are starting to realize with the news of the full melting of #1 that the situation is far worse than they were assuming. There is a fatalistic feeling here. There are not many sources of info in the Japanese press (yeah Asahi!). I bet there is a lot of free floating distress with no sense of agency.
by bo 5/15/2011 8:39:31 AM

@elaine - noo, and it just reinforces the fact that actually they don't have a plan at all, the 'road map' was basically management by assertion rather than results.
by hudebnik 5/15/2011 8:40:16 AM

When you come to realize that you have just been sitting there while one of the plants had fully melted weeks ago, that can lead you to feel that you have no control, and you have no idea what else is happening.
by bo 5/15/2011 8:40:54 AM

I'm off now until tomorrow. Going to see Die Valkyrie. Hope it takes my mind of things. Thank God it's not Gotterdammerung!
by hudebnik 5/15/2011 8:41:56 AM

good morning scribblers. I see 4 is still standing although it looks worse in the sunlight. Any other news? Those tweets from Japan are heartbreaking.
by UKVal 5/15/2011 8:42:10 AM

The news of the (weeks old) full meltdown will have a huge affect
by bo 5/15/2011 8:42:14 AM

I tweet and follow a few that I met when parents were trying to get the school situation highlighted and mums/dads who opened witter accounts just to try to get support (you could tell as they had few followers at first) are now retweeting stuff it is like they have discovered an outlet
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:42:34 AM

@Elaine I'm not a tweeter - but is there any way we could get those messages out to sympathetic groups elsewhere so people would at least know & maybe able to offer support at least?
by UKVal 5/15/2011 8:44:54 AM

@ukval oh they are finding support because the advantage of twitter is if you retweet someones message it gets picked up and others start following the original tweeter so they can keep abreast so even if not everyone replies the tweeter knows they are getting support from the increase in followers
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:53:14 AM

@ukval also when you do a google search and set it to 'latest' in the options down the left you get all tweets with your search term as well as news items , blogs etc
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:55:11 AM

Ah! thanks - just shows my ignorance of tweeting!
by UKVal 5/15/2011 8:55:12 AM

@elainekirk -Oh! I've never tried that before -always used last 24 hours
by UKVal 5/15/2011 8:57:30 AM

@ukval the latest one sometimes scrolls too fast to read but there is a pause button lol
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 8:59:45 AM

@elainekirk it's bit like watching seismographs - stuff reverberates around in minutes - only with echoes as some of it's repeats
by UKVal 5/15/2011 9:02:43 AM

@elainekirk - please can we pin the petition up top?
by UKVal 5/15/2011 9:12:49 AM

yeah @ukval the retweet system kicks in very well doesn't it lol. Of f to church back soon.
by elainekirk 5/15/2011 9:13:06 AM

@UKVal Ok I think I have managed to work out how to pin things! lol Was that the one you wanted?
by Angie 5/15/2011 9:18:57 AM

@Angie - yes. Thanks very much. Hope people will see it & sign it
by UKVal 5/15/2011 9:19:42 AM

@Angie @bo - I guess we all feel so powerless -it's good to find something we can do, however small
by UKVal 5/15/2011 9:24:02 AM

@UKVal That is very true! Powerless is very much how I feel,
by Angie 5/15/2011 9:25:57 AM

@Angie There are people whose lives are in jeopardy & few seem to want to know outside Japan. sometimes it's hard to bear
by UKVal 5/15/2011 9:28:27 AM