8.9 earth quake + tsunami in Japan

[Typhoid]

Some lessons learned: Keep the generators on the ground level, and have solar back-up to run the cooling system. Triple redundancy. If the plant had electricity this never would have happened. Also, I think keeping spent fuel on site should be re-examined.

Personally, I think the lesson learned should be "Find a different type of energy that won't possibly devastate your local (or any far away) area. I'm just not a fan of Nuclear power for reasons like this. Sure, they're safe when they're working - but when they fail - they fail magnificently. It just added an un-needed disaster to this already terrible disaster. It's like those pimp my ride memes. "Yo dog, we heard you like disasters, so we put a disaster in your disaster so you can panic while you suffer."

Also, people here are suddenly buying emergency stock and kits (or whatever it's called). Takes a disaster to be prepared for one?

Some people here have been doing that, too. Granted, Vancouver is overdue for an earthquake on par, or worse than what hit Japan (Science forbid). I have a hard time watching BBC with all the Japan coverage without working myself into a worried fit of "That's going to fucking happen here."