Japan rocked with 8.9 earthquake.

[caseysmom]

My family could live off our pantry for weeks...

[Grace]

On September 1, 1923 an earthquake hit Yokohama, Japan. It registered just 7 on the Richter scale, but caused immense damage.

Here is a blog from the NY Times about that quake. 145,000 people died back then.

[Karen]

My family could live off our pantry for weeks...

But that assumes you could get to your pantry ... and many of these people's whole houses are in rubble.

I think most New Englanders would live off their pantry supplies for at least a week, but that doesn't stop everyone from running to the store every time a big storm is forecast!

[caseysmom]

But that assumes you could get to your pantry ... and many of these people's whole houses are in rubble.

I think most New Englanders would live off their pantry supplies for at least a week, but that doesn't stop everyone from running to the store every time a big storm is forecast!

Oh I know Karen and didn't mean to sound unsypathetic...just saying I have tons of food on hand.

[pomtzu]

My pantry is very well stocked also, but most is with food that has to be cooked too, other than canned items, so it wouldn't last all that long.
Spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, rice, cake mixes, dry soup mix, bisquick, pudding mix, jello, etc. etc - all in there, but not edible as is without further preparation - and all of those require water or milk.

[Karen]

My pantry is very well stocked also, but most is with food that has to be cooked too, other than canned items, so it wouldn't last all that long.
Spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, rice, cake mixes, dry soup mix, bisquick, pudding mix, jello, etc. etc - all in there, but not edible as is without further preparation - and all of those require water or milk.

I always have some dry milk powder on hand, just in case, and we always have some gallon jugs of water on hand. I like milk with my cereal or oatmeal too much, so in desperation, I can resort to that!

I feel so sad for the Japanese people, such a hard thing they are going through, and the aftershocks must feel like adding insult to injury. I have no doubt many of the children will have nightmares for years to come because of this. I do not trust anything they are reporting about the nuclear reactor situation, seeing as they say one thing and then another that contradicts the first, but that whole thing is just added stress of the already-beleaguered people.

[caseysmom]

Its heartbreaking, especially seeing the very young and the very old without a place to call home.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

There has been another explosion at nuclear reactor 2. That's the one they have been really worried about.