Originally Posted by Rochard

Japan is still talking about deaths in the thousands, not the hundreds of thousands. While this is huge and hundreds of thousands are homeless, and I feel for them, it doesn't come close to the 2004 Tsunami where 200k people died - and took place in a country that didn't have the resources to deal with it.

(I'm not mocking your at all Robbie; I think society over all has short term memory.)