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steven (Offline)
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03-15-2011, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by MMM View Post
There is one flight a day from Tokyo to Portland. Today was the second day the flight was flown in a row. On the local news they showed a Japanese woman with her two sons. She said they had "evacuated" from Tokyo. She said Narita was full of thousands of people trying to evacuate. She also said the shelves in grocery stores and drug stores were empty. She couldn't even buy toilet paper in or around Tokyo.

Is this true?
I don't know about that specific case, but I do have some friends in Tokyo who took some pictures of completely empty grocery store shelves. They are talking about it a bit on the news as well.
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