Do not panic, women and children first, God Bless America

[flamingdem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAzI71-QBRo&feature=player_embedded#at=551

Evacuation Orders - Capt. Eric Gardner, In Charge of Naval Air Facility Atsugi 3/17/11

[Lucinda]

1. Another thumb talker.

:)

[flamingdem]

2. LOL what is a thumb talker

He has a fidget?

[Lucinda]

4. It's just something that always cracks me up and sort of distracts from what they are saying

Clinton is a big thumb talker too.
Some people just stick that thumb up during public speaking.
I think JFK did it too. It's very earnest, but odd to me. :)

[kristopher]

7. People who can't stop themselves from pointing are taught to use thumb like that

Pointing at the audience or camera is considered to be offensive.

[flamingdem]

3. Quake, wars, unrest, make evacuation big business

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/uk-business-evacuations-idUSLNE72F06C20110316

"It's been frantic," said Tom Frankland, a former British Army tank officer and now operations director for London-based crisis management firm Northcott Global Solutions. "We had Tunisia and Egypt, then Libya was hugely busy -- a mixture of energy and government clients who wanted help with evacuations."

Numbers were huge. At one stage, the firm was dealing with 10 separate requests totalling some 6,000 potential evacuees of many nationalities. Another firm, Control Risks, says it arranged the repatriation of 2,000 Chinese oil workers by air.

Now, Frankland and team are pulling together contingency plans to extract clients from Japan if current post-quake nuclear worries turn into a full-scale disaster.

[bananas]

5. longer clip: President Obama Orders Evacuation of Women and Children Naval Air Facility Atsugi Japan

President Obama Orders Evacuation of Women and Children Naval Air Facility Atsugi Japan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie2fC2cC-WQ&feature=related

[kristopher]

6. There are about 40 million people between Atsugi and Fukushima. nt