They'll sort something. Their a ingenius technological folk not a slum in the third world and the survivors will rebuild. Consider this a chance to start anew?JimC wrote:I was thinking about the Queensland floods a while ago, which was nick-named an "inland tsunami". People might remember cars floating down streets, and buildings being washed away (of course the scale in Japan is much larger)
However, one thing is much worse in the Japanese context, particularly for agricultural land - it was a flood of salt water for them.
In Queensland, it was a tragedy, and a hell of a mess, but when it is cleaned up, the fields will be fine - some may have even benefit from a top dressing of sediment.
But the poor buggers of farmers in Japan will have salt-contaminated soil for a long time to come.
http://www.scidev.net/en/news/tsunamihi ... -rice.html
