Monday, March 14, 2011

She's here!!!! Julia has arrived home safely.

She's here!!!! Julia has arrived home safely.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Julia still ok

From Julia:
"they're letting us back into our rooms to sleep, but there's no heat, phones, water, or power. Airport is mostly closed, but still uncertain. ... At present all transit to airport is closed, but it might change tomorrow. Everyone here (Japanese) says it's the worst earthquake they've ever felt... Roughing it a littlle, ...but they're well prepared here. I don't have much time on the computer though"

Things seem to be calming down. Yay!

Julia is in Japan and OK

Hi blog readers. We haven't posted in forever and this is a crappy circumstance under which to start again. But in the hope of reaching anybody that might be worried about Julia, I want to say that she is so far fine. She is presently in Tsukuba near Tokyo for work. In case you haven't heard there have been very intense earthquakes off the coast of Japan in recent days. The lastest was measured at 8.9 and happened right in the middle of the talk she was giving.
She has been emailing me from other peoples phones to let me know she is ok:

6:22 GMT "There was a giant earthquake in the middle of my talk . Meeting is cancelled. We ca't go back in..."
10:58 GMT "...there is no power or water and there are constant small tremors still. its getting cold and we are a little hungry but fine..."