Airman, wife cope after quake (Yokota Air Base in Japan)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110314/NEWS01/703149854/733#airman-wife-cope-after-quake

By Sam Womack and Susan Szalewski
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITERS

An Iowa couple living on Yokota Air Base in Japan could be facing possible evacuation with a baby due in just two weeks.

Airman First Class Michael Holben, who returned to the base Tuesday from a deployment in Kuwait, and his wife, Kara, both 23, survived Friday's earthquake.

Since, they've been monitoring the problems at some of Japan's nuclear power plants.

Kara is 37 weeks pregnant and due to have Bryelle Ruth Holben on April 2.

“The nuclear reactor situation would have to get really out of control” for them to evacuate, Holben said in an e-mail interview Monday with The World-Herald.

But if that time comes: “I don't know where we would have to go and in what condition my wife would be at the time. God willing, we will have her (the baby) here on base in Japan.”

FULL story and photo at link.

[rocktivity]

1. Two weeks? With a baby coming and radiation spreading

I'd be headed home on the first thing moving.

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