Angst Report

Can things get any worse for Japan? Yes, it seems, they can. Though news stories are not definitive at this hour (12:40 a.m. on Sunday March 13), it appears that meltdowns are underway at two nuclear power plants devastated by the earthquake and tsunami.  This photograph, by Kim Kyung-Hoon of Reuters, is particularly distressing. In it, a small child with a worried expression holds his or her arms high while a worker decked head-to-toe in protective garbs checks for radiation. Achingly, it  brought back memories of watching the “The Door,” a haunting 2010 Oscar-nominated short film about a village that was evacuated after the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown.

“That day we didn’t just lose a town,” the main character says in voiceover as we see him bury his beautiful daughter Lena. “We lost our whole world.”

I pray that the children of Koriyama fare better than the ones in Chernobyl. Watch the movie, just 17 minutes long, in the jump.

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Tsunami.

Ever since the Dec. 26 tsunami in Thailand, the word fills me with dread.

While the east coast of the United States slept, an 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, triggering a tsunami, which is now hitting Hawaii and heading to the U.S., where the entire West Coast is under a tsunami warning.

All of it just slightly more bizarre because just yesterday on the Angst Report I mentioned Ani Knipping’s precog dream of the Thailand tsunami. Read the rest of this entry »