Disaster creates mass Tokyo exodus

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1. interesting article on the exodus and those who can afford to leave

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110316/wl_nm/us_japan_quake_tokyo

Some foreign bankers, flush with money, are fleeing fast, some on private jets. BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered and Morgan Stanley were among banks whose staff have left since Friday, according to industry sources.

Thousands of people have inundated private jet companies with requests for evacuation flights, sending prices surging.

"I got a request yesterday to fly 14 people from Tokyo to Hong Kong ... they did not care about price," said Jackie Wu, chief operations officer at Hong Kong Jet, a newly established private jet subsidiary of China's HNA Group.

A chartered plane from Tokyo to Australia, one way, was $265,000, 20 percent higher than usual, he said.

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2. This kind of brings back memories of what happened during Katrina...

The well to do were able to get out on time, but those without means to leave were left standing high and dry (er not so dry) on top of their houses waiting for the flood waters to go down, someone to rescue them, or the flood waters to come up and take them away... And then you had cops shooting at people "invading their neighborhoods" trying to flee to other areas too.

I really hope that the disadvantaged aren't totally trashed by radiation, etc. That would be very sad in the same way.