The death toll is up to 10,000 now????

[Taverner]

The other day it was 1000, now it's ten times that???

Oh shit...

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. A whole town went poof!

[Taverner]

3. Yes - but I thought they were able to evacuate some of them

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. They were able to evacuate a lot of people

but for example the disabled who could not run... staid behind.

It is a horrible faustian choice.

[Taverner]

9. Fuck....

That is all I can say...

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. As a former emergency worker I actually get it

and I stil have bad dreams from my triage decisions. And it is nothing to this point

[Taverner]

14. I have no idea what I would do in that situation

Place other's needs before my own - easy

Having to choose whos' life gets to be saved and who doesn't? Just thinking about that makes my mind hurt

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. And medical personnel do that regularly

It is years later you wonder, did I do the right things?

Truth is, there are no right choices.

[csziggy]

6. Only half the town went poof - abot 9500 people

At least that has been the report since Saturday. I guess with finding the thousands of bodies yesterday the Japanese government could no longer pretend that those people would all be found alive.

[Boswell]

2. I saw a report that there were that many "missing"

not sure what the actual toll really is.

[tabatha]

4. The previous report was confirmed dead

and suspected missing. I believe that the suspected missing have now been conformed dead.

[cbdo2007]

5. what is your source??

[Taverner]

7. International Business times

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/122076/20110313/japan-shinmoedake-volcano-shinmoe-dake-erupted-erupts-ash-rock-earthquake-tsunami.htm

Granted it could be wrong:

The Shinmoedake volcano in Japan's Kyushu has erupted two days after the massive earthquake and tsunami that left more than 10,000 people dead, reports said on Sunday. There was no confirmation on whether the eruption was related to Friday's quake.

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/122076/20110313/japan-shinmoedake-volcano-shinmoe-dake-erupted-erupts-ash-rock-earthquake-tsunami.htm#ixzz1GbZBbb6V

[aquart]

10. I think that's a missing number which they confidently believe are dead.

But it's only ONE town. One.

And bodies, I heard, have started washing onshore like they did in Indonesia. Thank God it's cold because this now becomes a battle against rot and disease.

All honor to the amazing international rescue teams which are in place and shouldering some of that intolerable burden.

[DFW]

11. I'll bet it was that in the first hour

Just no one could find the remains. I'd also bet it's way higher than that.

The destruction was unimaginable, and it wouldn't surprise me to hear that
less than half the victims have been located.

[Kennah]

13. I believe the official number is still around 1,900 but it's going to rise a lot

[Vinee]

16. grim tide of death as 2,000 bodies wash up on the shores

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8381336/Japan-tsunami-grim-tide-of-death-as-2000-bodies-wash-up-on-the-shores.html

[progressoid]

17. It will continue to rise for days to come.

[AsahinaKimi]

18. so so sad

kanashii :cry:

[k2qb3]

20. The death toll is going to continue to rise for weeks...

I'm sure there's tens of thousands of bodies that need to be identified and more yet to be found, it's going to be really bad, Japan has really high population density and people didn't get enough warning to evac.

I read in one valley the wave was 100' high because the geography focused it...

We've been focused on the reactor problems but the real story is how bad the natural disaster that caused them really was.

[dkofos]

19. Just another guess.

We may never know how many for real.
It took months before we knew the true extant of the Indonesian Tsunami.

[Baclava]

21. Tide of 1,000 bodies overwhelms quake-hit Japan, crews run out of body bags

TAKAJO, Japan — A tide of bodies washed up along Japan's coastline, crematoriums were overwhelmed and rescue workers ran out of body bags as the nation faced the grim reality of a mounting humanitarian, economic and nuclear crisis Monday after a calamitous tsunami.

A Japanese police official said 1,000 washed up bodies were found scattered Monday across the coastline of Miyagi prefecture. The official declined to be named, citing department policy. The discovery raised the official death toll to about 2,800, but the Miyagi police chief has said that more than 10,000 people are estimated to have died in his province alone, which has a population of 2.3 million.

"We have already begun cremations, but we can only handle 18 bodies a day. We are overwhelmed and are asking other cites to help us deal with bodies. We only have one crematorium in town," Katsuhiko Abe, an official in Soma, told The Associated Press.

In Japan, most people opt to cremate their dead, a process that, like burial, requires permission first from local authorities. But the government took the rare step Monday of waiving that requirement to speed up funerals, said Health Ministry official Yukio Okuda.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/tide_body_bodies_overwhelms_quake_J2TXtAaD8VaPIGZyXKnM2O#ixzz1GcJVlvVh
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yeah - it's bad.

[Contrary1]

22. I fear it will be many times that before it's over.

There will be a sizable number of people who will never be recovered, and assumed dead.

It breaks my heart.

[Taverner]

23. Dog I hope not