Lawrence Person's Futuramen

Some news on the Sendai earthquake and tsunami:

Confirmed death toll above above 3,400, but estimates still above 10,000.

Supermarket shelves in Tokyo are bare

I can’t even pretend to keep up with all the contradictory twists and turns of the nuclear plant saga, but the latest news I saw was things were looking up. Slightly. Maybe.

Gilbert Gottfried fired from his gig as the voice of the AFLAC duck for telling jokes about Japan on Twitter. The jokes, while indeed in somewhat poor taste, are pretty mild for a comedian that appeared in The Aristocrats, and probably compared to the inevitable forthcoming South Park episode.

More aftermath pictures from the Sendair earthquake and tsunami.

Tsunami coming in to Iwaki City:

More tsunami wave footage:

Rooftop tsunami footage:

Sendai tsunami footage:

The tsunami in Minamisanriku:

Still more tsunami footage:

The aftermath in Rikuzentakata:

Shinmoedake volcano eruption in SW Japan:

This and all previous posts on the Sendai earthquake and tsunami can be found here.

Tags: earthquake, Japan, Sendai, tsunami, volcano

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