The earthquake in Japan was so large it made the Earth spin a little faster. Now every day is 1.8 microseconds shorter. Also, it moved the whole country a full parking space to the east. Countries that move at all move only barely centimeters every year, and Japan moved 13 feet in a few days.
These people...they need help. This is worse than Haiti.
I read a lot of other info about this in Time magazine that I can't remember...which I feel horrible about, by the way. Their economy is down the toilet and something (maybe stocks or the economy itself, I don't know) went down 14% in such little time.
Next time you're feeling sorry for yourself, imagine kneeling over a loved one on an island of rubble in the middle of an ocean of dirty, muddy water that wasn't there the day before. Imagine your home either being shaken down by an earthquake or drowned and toppled by a tsunami.
Yeah. Morbid thoughts kinda make that self-pity disappear, don't they?
These people...they need help. This is worse than Haiti.
"The earthquake in Japan on March 11, consequent tsunami, and related exposures will result in a pre-tax insurance loss of $700m, AIG said."700 million dollars.
I read a lot of other info about this in Time magazine that I can't remember...which I feel horrible about, by the way. Their economy is down the toilet and something (maybe stocks or the economy itself, I don't know) went down 14% in such little time.
Next time you're feeling sorry for yourself, imagine kneeling over a loved one on an island of rubble in the middle of an ocean of dirty, muddy water that wasn't there the day before. Imagine your home either being shaken down by an earthquake or drowned and toppled by a tsunami.
Yeah. Morbid thoughts kinda make that self-pity disappear, don't they?
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