Craziness that has been Japan recently!

So Tokushima wasn't effected in the slightest thank God!  We had a slight panic the first day being a coastal town on the same side of ocean as the earthquake, nothing came of it down here.  The baseball team didn't even twitch....they kept on practicing ALL evening long even as the police were driving up and down the the river bank (on which the school and apartments are located) with the tsunami warning.  Tokushima's lack of problems aside, having previously lived in Kawauchi villiage in Fukushima prefecture I've been extremly worried about my friends.  All of them had to be evactuated are still wherever they got sent unable to return home yet.  It's easy to see why coastal property here in Japan is the cheaper land available once something like this occurs.  Tomioka and Okuma (city where the Nuclear Power Plant that is unstable is) are where the largest number of my friends were located, and both are right on the coast. It's pretty scary thinking about what they had to endure and the challenges they still have yet to face.  A friend of mine kept posting right up until she had to leave her house because of the nuclear reactor that kept threatening to blow (her house is only 20km from it) seems Okuma where she lived had Tsunami damage 3km inland, barely missing her house.  Fortunately, as I've mentioned Kawauchi is in the moutains so I didn't worry about the friends there until the reactor added to the existing problems.  It alieviated some of my imidiate worries at least. 

My family has been trying to convince me to come back home, but as we aren't facing shortages or problems I can't really justify running away, either to myself of my employers....so for now I've opted to stay.  My concious doesn't really allow me to break promises without a VERY good reason, though...yay! my sister is pregnate....kinda makes me wish Tokushima was in a little more danger as to warrant my running home, it's going to be my first niece or nephew and I'm missing the birth by a good 6 months, and my sister and I are extremely close so it's a really upsetting thing to miss.