Thread: My sister lives (I hope) in Sendai - 1st city hit by tsunami

Originally Posted by Landy110

HOW BLOODY STUPID DO YOU NEED TO BE TO ADD TECHOLOGY TO A TOILET ???

You pour water into the bowl, washing away your poo poo's, not in the top

Update.
Ginny rang today to say they are getting out.

Good news !

They are driving out and heading south west to Shizuoka and the home of a fellow ex-pat Aus friend of hers.

Because of the damage to the roads and the huge mass exodus she thinks it could take as long as 4 days to get there.

Fingers crossed she has an uneventful journey.

And yes rovercare, I know you just dump it straight down the bowl but most of the people who have grown up in a country that thinks computerised toilets are a good idea don't have the ability to think outside the cystern as it where.

Steve

Another update
They drove out of Sendai around noon yesterday and eventually pulled up somewhere and spent a night in a motel. Their first comfy warm night since thursday.

They decided to ditch the car and fly to Nagoya and I just got off the phone to her, they are on the ground there and just a short train ride from her friend's house in Shizuoka.

They are finally truly safe!

She will just crash until next week when they will start thinking about the future.

If you were listenning to the Richard Glover drive show on ABC radio this afternoon you may have heard her. I didn't, we don't get the show here.

When I told her about the big cues for fuel to get out of Sendai and Fukushimi she said that a lot of people spent friday night in their cars with engines running and heaters on watching news on their navigation screens, as a result they have no fuel left to get out of there. Poor buggers.

Steve

Landy110,

Glad to hear your loved ones have made it through a life changing event and they are ok.

Originally Posted by The Brun

Thank God your sister and kids are ok. Great to hear mate.

very very good mate.

Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word "SAFE" I was previously unaware of....

So they survive the Quake
They survive the Blizzard
They survive the Tsunami
They survive the drive out
They get to Shizuoka and are safe......
1 relaxed safe night in Shizuoka and there is a 6.1 earthquake there !

That's tally for sis, time to abandon ship. She will be on the first flight home she could get on with her girls. Flying out on Friday evening, she will land nowhere near family but who cares, she will be in Aus.

One very telling thing she said was that as they walked through the terminal at Nagoya they walked past an escalator and when the girls felt the slight vibration from it in the floor they squeezed her hands tight and looked up at her in fear. Poor little buggers, I just want to hold them and tell them they are safe and know they really are.

Steve

Originally Posted by Landy110

Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word "SAFE" I was previously unaware of....

So they survive the Quake
They survive the Blizzard
They survive the Tsunami
They survive the drive out
They get to Shizuoka and are safe......
1 relaxed safe night in Shizuoka and there is a 6.1 earthquake there !

That's tally for sis, time to abandon ship. She will be on the first flight home she could get on with her girls. Flying out on Friday evening, she will land nowhere near family but who cares, she will be in Aus.

One very telling thing she said was that as they walked through the terminal at Nagoya they walked past an escalator and when the girls felt the slight vibration from it in the floor they squeezed her hands tight and looked up at her in fear. Poor little buggers, I just want to hold them and tell them they are safe and know they really are.

Steve

Maybe an ALTRO member would like to play Taxi, or even a bed?
How’s the Altro Taxi service to get them close to family?
international flight all they will have is 20Kgs Max, that’s not much for very long

That's not a bad idea 85
I am not sure she will need much help, she will probably stay in the airport till she can fly to Sydney.
Thankfully she can afford to and is quite used to travelling so will be well packed I would imagine.

If needed I will post at the time, I don't want to give her destination away, she won't want a heap of reporters in her face.

Steve