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NBR My heart is breaking watching footage of Japan.

TiffanyTheMomTiffanyTheMom member
in February 2011 Moms

Not only did I once live there (for 5 years) and still have friends there, but my older sister is an English teacher in Yokohama. I found out this morning she's safe, but to see footage of entire houses and villages being washed away with tsunami waters, and cars trying to outrun the water... my heart is breaking. I have so many friends still in Japan, thankfully a little further south than Sendai and Tokyo (by about 2hrs by train) but my sister still lives in Yokohama, which is a city on the water. I don't know how far inland her apartment is, but if they have a tsunami like up north she could be in danger.

I'm so upset and crying my eyes out watching the news. The quake in Haiti had nothing on this one.

Edit: I spelled like a 3rd grader.

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  • Mrs.HMommyMrs.HMommy
    It is heart breaking to watch. I hope all your friends and family are safe. T&P are with them. 
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  • JessiRayeJessiRaye member
    It is heartbreaking:( I hope your loved ones are safe.
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  • AnnyongAnnyong
    It's very sad, I'm glad ti know that your loved ones are safe. Prayers and thoughts are with the victims of this terrible quake/tsunami.
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  • mldainmldain member
    Tiffany I'm with you I lived in yokohama for 2 years and since I grew up in hawaii a lot of my friends and family live there now. I've heard from everyone but one person. I was in complete shock when I saw tokyo in flames thinking omg I used to go there often. I hope all of your friends and family are safe. Thoughts and prayers to the families over there.
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  • hesherherohesherhero member
    I know how you feel. I don't usually watch the news in the morning and don't have time to read the paper in the morning before work so I had no clue what was going on until I get a text message from my mil asking if I had heard from my husband (who is in Okinawa, Japan) after the massive earthquake. I could not concentrate at work all day until I finally was able to get on the internet and found articles saying that the Marine Corps Bases in Japan were okay. Luckily he was able to call me before they went out in the field for the next few days or I really would have been freaking out. Even after reading those articles I still worried until I heard it come from him that he was safe. I hope that your sister and friends are safe as well and you get to hear from her soon.
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  • TiffanyTheMomTiffanyTheMom member

    HesHerHero, I can't imagine my DH being over there with all this. I haven't heard about how it is there, I hope there isn't any/much flooding where he is. Watching the tsunami water flow over the land in Minamisoma gave me chills, I've been weeping all day. The amount of women with children who couldn't have possibly escaped that just takes my breath away. 

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    Tiffany I'm with you I lived in yokohama for 2 years and since I grew up in hawaii a lot of my friends and family live there now. I've heard from everyone but one person. I was in complete shock when I saw tokyo in flames thinking omg I used to go there often. I hope all of your friends and family are safe. Thoughts and prayers to the families over there.

    We used to go to the Outback in Tokyo all the time, and we LOVED Yokohama. We loved Hard Rock, and the huge ferris wheel in Sakuragicho, and China Town. My sister lives in Yokohama but is staying with her boyfriend in Tokyo this weekend sine he's further inland and the building is concrete, and her building is wood. His is MUCH safer. All my friends are in Tokyo or further south, so they're safe. My sister's part of Yokohama got power back this morning, and the trains have started working. Now the big worry is food- food trucks are having a hard time navigating cracked and broken roads, and the grocery marts are sold out of easy food like the breads, onigiri, canned soups, muffins and such. Thankfully, my sister's boyfriend has a good bit of food at his place so they're good for a few days.

    All this is so heartbreaking. After living there for so long, I still feel like Japan is home for me and I cannot believe this has happened. 

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