British/US Search and Rescue teams are due to pull out of Japan tomorrow

[The Straight Story]

16.43 British Search and Rescue teams are due to pull out of Japan tomorrow, along with their American counterparts, it has been announced. The UK International Search and Rescue workers had scoured Kamaishi town in northern Japan but no-one was pulled from the debris alive. As heavy snow fell and temperatures plummeted, they acknowledged that six days after the start of the disaster there was now an "extremely low chance" of finding anyone.

16.42 Barack Obama is due to make a statement about the situation in Japan at 7.30pm this evening, the White House has confirmed.

16.36 Some of the nuclear reactors in Europe will reveal safety shortcomings when "stress tests" are conducted, the EU's energy chief has said, angering nuclear-friendly France. Guenther Oettinger told Franco-German TV station Arte:

I think that the stress test that we want to conduct on all the nuclear reactors will show that not all of them meet the highest safety norms. One or more of the 143 reactors will struggle to satisfy the highest norms.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8375373/Japan-earthquake-live.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. One of the photos they were wearing dosimeters

They must have reached a max.

And a lot of that gear is now scrap... a pair of boots runs close to 300... I am not surprised

[Autumn]

2. I'm wondering what your take is on the military

evacuating all military families from Japan? To me that seems to signal something.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Essentilals, you take essentials

they are not going to PSD people... take a bag of clothes, take your papers, take your meds. You are out of here

[Autumn]

4. That makes a lot of sense. My Daughter was an

Air Force wife and when that came up ,she said she thinks that shows the military has decided it is FUBAR in Japan.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Same here

<------ Navy Wife

[Missy Vixen]

11. My author friend is a Navy wife as well

I am wondering if they'll all be able to leave, or just Mom and the kids. Hopefully, we'll get an e-mail from her soon. She's e-mailed my authors' list every day this week.

I'm torn between wanting to know what is happening there, and just wanting to avoid the news.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Dependents means mom and kids

he is staying, he has a job to do.

[truebrit71]

5. PSD?

I don't know what that means???

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Sorry.. my bad, regular move

[truebrit71]

9. Thanks!

:hi:

[tammywammy]

8. The company I work for is pulling all people out of Japan

Including the ex-pats that live in Japan.

[Hannah Bell]

10. full text from that link.

16.43 British Search and Rescue teams are due to pull out of Japan tomorrow, along with their American counterparts, it has been announced. The UK International Search and Rescue workers had scoured Kamaishi town in northern Japan but no-one was pulled from the debris alive. As heavy snow fell and temperatures plummeted, they acknowledged that six days after the start of the disaster there was now an "extremely low chance" of finding anyone.


i see nothing about the search & rescue teams even having dosimeters, let alone having receieved maximum dose, as a poster speculates.

kamaishi is well north of okuma. like 4 hours by japan railway.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&sugexp=ldymls&pq=kamaishi&xhr=t&q=kamaishi+japan&cp=9&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

try "get directions". okuma is the location of fukushima plant 1.

just for the record.

[The Straight Story]

16. Not omitted, recently added (copied and pasted what was there at the time) (nt)

[Hannah Bell]

18. maybe you still have time to correct it. the text i copied also says 16:43, like your copy.

[The Straight Story]

19. Done - thanks! (nt)

[Hannah Bell]

20. thanks. i appreciate that.

[Hannah Bell]

21. predictably, once you did, there was a sudden loss of interest.

[MrCoffee]

13. Don't SAR teams have a limited time window of effectiveness?

Not to be callous, but after a week, it's less rescue and more retrieval.

[Hannah Bell]

14. yes, as it says in the text the poster omitted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=671891&mesg_id=672246

[MrCoffee]

15. Ah, thanks

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Yes, but they are aslo leaving well before the outside window

which is about 14 days.

[sam kane]

17. China did this a long time ago.

While have we left people there? Everyone should be leaving Japan.