Fwd: Update on Japan's Earthquake

[Grampa Slowsky]

Hope this helps, Jonathan. How are you and yours?

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Subject:	Update on Japan's Earthquake
Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:59:55 -0500
From:	Grampa Slowsky <wo...@comcast.net>
To:	undisclosed-recipients:;

Dear Ones,
    Thank you for all the concern expressed and prayers given in behalf of our son. This will largely be repetitious as there is little news coming in. Bill and his family survived the quake with no injuries. Their home suffered "some" damage. They have no electricity. Telephone service is "spotty." Water is running. They have fuel for heating and cooking.
    Bill spent much of the day at a local radio station giving English Language bulletins and advisories. We are not certain whether the station has line power or an emergency generator.
    Ongoing concerns are for continuing aftershocks and a nearby nuclear power plant whose cooling system has failed and whose core is in some danger of a meltdown. Several thousand in the immediate vicinity have been evacuated and others are on standby in case the engineers lose all control. I believe (but am not certain) that Bill is upwind of the affected plant so that even a worst-case release of radiation would be blown away from him.
    Members of the LDS Church will be interested in knowing that Sendai is Mission Headquarters for the Church in Bill's neck of the woods. Sendai is on the coast and has suffered extensive damage from the quake and more from the tsunami. I have not heard a report on the safety of the missionaries or mission HQ. The military reports that all U.S. military personnel have been located and are safe.
    I have included an updated map showing the relationship between Tokyo, Sendai, Mizusawa-Oshu (Bill's home town), the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant, and the epicenter of the quake.
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Love Y'all,
Gramma and Grampa Slowsky in Acworth (GA)
AKA Letty and Bill Lewis

[Jonathan Scott]

Thank you very much for the update.  It didn't register with me immediately that Bill was even in danger.  I've never had a friend even mildly involved in a natural disaster, so I don't even think to think about it.  Once I remembered that Bill lived up there, I was very concerned.  Thank you for the update.  We all like Bill here a lot.

Pass our regards on to him.

We are all fine.  Nothing happened here.  We didn't even feel it.  I didn't even know it occurred until my Mom called to ask if we were OK.

On Mar 12, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Grampa Slowsky wrote:

Hope this helps, Jonathan. How are you and yours?

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	Update on Japan's Earthquake
Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:59:55 -0500
From:	Grampa Slowsky <wo...@comcast.net>
To:	undisclosed-recipients:;

Dear Ones,

<mime-attachment.jpeg>    Thank you for all the concern expressed and prayers given in behalf of our son. This will largely be repetitious as there is little news coming in. Bill and his family survived the quake with no injuries. Their home suffered "some" damage. They have no electricity. Telephone service is "spotty." Water is running. They have fuel for heating and cooking.

    Bill spent much of the day at a local radio station giving English Language bulletins and advisories. We are not certain whether the station has line power or an emergency generator.
    Ongoing concerns are for continuing aftershocks and a nearby nuclear power plant whose cooling system has failed and whose core is in some danger of a meltdown. Several thousand in the immediate vicinity have been evacuated and others are on standby in case the engineers lose all control. I believe (but am not certain) that Bill is upwind of the affected plant so that even a worst-case release of radiation would be blown away from him.
    Members of the LDS Church will be interested in knowing that Sendai is Mission Headquarters for the Church in Bill's neck of the woods. Sendai is on the coast and has suffered extensive damage from the quake and more from the tsunami. I have not heard a report on the safety of the missionaries or mission HQ. The military reports that all U.S. military personnel have been located and are safe.
    I have included an updated map showing the relationship between Tokyo, Sendai, Mizusawa-Oshu (Bill's home town), the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant, and the epicenter of the quake.
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Love Y'all,
Gramma and Grampa Slowsky in Acworth (GA)
AKA Letty and Bill Lewis

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