Japan tsunami and aftermath is devastating

I can't imagine how the people of Japan are doing. With such widespread devastation and more to come. People hopelessly trying to find relatives and food and water.What do you do when there is little resources and everything is an unknown and a hurdle. How do people make the most of things and be optimistic in the wake of such horrible conditions, with little end or hope in sight. This is far worse than New Orleans or Haiti.

I was thinking that a hundred years ago, there would be comparable devastation, but not as much perils because there would not have been high rises and nuclear power plans. So people could go on. Rebuild. But what about today's populace, who are so conditioned and dependent on their creature comforts - home, food, electronic gadgets, travel, education, TV, internet, and more. It will be very hard for people to start over from ground zero and to rebuild all the amenities that today's communities have come to expect. Much harder transition, to be sure. That would be very hard, indeed.

Maybe that is what we need, to go back to a simpler life. There is no way that we would willfully take the action to give up all our internet and social media connectedness and self sufficiency and global society. But once again, the internet and global telecom has saved the day, by helping people communicate when other networks were down.

This is one for the record books.