Walked into the office all bleary-eyed at 4:45am today and everyone was fixated on the TV screens (no, I’m not even close to being the first one in even at that hour) which were all showing the tsunami in Japan. So unbelievably awful. Definitely woke me up seeing all that.Â
We did get a note from our Tokyo desk saying that all in all they felt the country was extremely well-prepared and that all the preparation had paid off.  They even said that much of the country was already back up and running as usual. I have to say I was pretty impressed with the way The Company dealt with certain things today, namely alerting the entire West Coast staff via email/phone/text msg about the tsunami warning very early on. Of course, they didn’t tell us to go home…haha. It was kind of crazy when EVERYONE’S phones started ringing at once, sort of like one of those movies where the President’s staff is all out hanging out somewhere and suddenly everyone’s phones start going off and you know the fit has hit the shan. Of course, nothing ever materialized.
And to be honest from our vantage point of the bay (from an upper floor of one of the city’s tallest buildings) it didn’t even really look the waves were any bigger than normal here.
But still…does anyone else feel like the world is ending right before our eyes?
Prayers to Japan. And also, congrats on a job well done. I doubt there’s another country in the world, including the US, that could absorb a ginormous earthquake AND a tsunami as well as Japan has.