>>>This morning I read that it might be ten times as many are missing. They found one guy floating on his house's roof nine miles out to sea. The North American west coast is long overdue for a similar event. (Bonnie and Al? Will you be moving east soon?)
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>>Hah! I'm not afraid of earthquakes or tsnunamis! <g>
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>>But, that's because I live on the east side of the Cascade mountains (100 miles from Seattle)... I'd barely feel an earthquake over here and also wouldn't have to worry about tsunamis.
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>Yeah, seems me to Yellowstone is a much bigger risk for you guys.
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There is one good thing to be said for Illinois. We don't get tsunamis.

My initial skepticism about death toll estimates in Japan was mistaken. If anything the actual toll is even higher. And we don't even know about the radiation yet. (At least we won't be hearing for a while about how safe and economical nuclear energy is).