9.0 quake, tsunami strike Japan; fourth reactor on fire

Re: 8.9 quake, tsunami strike Japan; tsunami watch for Hawaii

Idiotic reporting note of the morning:

To the east coast media reporting about this on the morning shows, please explain why you have to keep giving the landfall times in eastern time. No one on the east coast will be affected by this. How about giving the west coast folks the courtesy of telling them what time this will actually affect them.

Dumb.

 

Re: 8.9 quake, tsunami strike Japan; tsunami watch for Hawaii

My favorite part was a CNN anchor trying to explain how the waves will come in. Was trying desperately to not say, "they'll come in waves" to describe waves. He kept struggling to find other descriptions.

Shades of Kramer: "it's like a sauna in here."

 

Re: 8.9 quake, tsunami strike Japan; tsunami watch for Hawaii

Japan looks like what happens when you get bored playing Sim City and just start hitting disaster buttons.

 

Re: 8.9 quake, tsunami strike Japan; tsunami watch for Hawaii

88,000 people missing.

 

Re: 8.9 quake, tsunami strike Japan; tsunami watch for Hawaii

CNN is trying to juggle the story in Tokyo, Hawaii and the developing one on the coast, and failing. They used to be able to do this in their sleep. Gotta be able to take baseball scores and type that JV swimming agate at the same time, folks.

 

Re: 8.9 quake, tsunami strike Japan; tsunami watch for Hawaii

To be fair, it's not just TV that's doing that. The AP story from Honolulu used EST when referencing when waves might hit the West Coast.

 

Re: 8.9 quake, tsunami strike Japan; tsunami watch for Hawaii

CNN Headline news just transitioned from the quake in Japan to the shocking news about some contestant on "American IdoL." Um, she didn't win. Or something.

 

Re: 8.9 quake, tsunami strike Japan; tsunami watch for Hawaii

We've lived in both California and Hawai'i. Well-educated relatives on the East Coast still asked us, after we'd been there a couple years, "Now, what time is it there?"

The only way you can count on East Coasters to know when something is expected to happen is to give it to them in their time.

 

Re: 8.9 quake, tsunami strike Japan; tsunami watch for Hawaii

Just wanted to get this out there: I read waterytart's post at 10:05 a.m. Eastern time.

 

Re: 8.9 quake, tsunami strike Japan; tsunami watch for Hawaii

Sorry. It made more sense at 9:08 Central.