God Bless those helping and give them strength beyond normal to carrying on for those suffering.

The Tsunami was a salt water event. Farmland will probably be sterile. Tsunami damage after the Alaska quake, destroyed vast areas of forests, which have shown no sign of recovery. It is salt water intrusion, and the toxicity of sea water to land based life is often forgotten until it is recognized that once productive land does not easily recover from this type of assault. The Japanese have great respect for productive land, and this loss will be a shock and another serious injury to a an area that has received a massive assault.

Like you, I hope for the best for this nation, and it's people. Having been in Japan during a much smaller disaster, many decades in the past I know that these people are resilient and were as well prepared as it is possible to be. Being prepared, saved many. Hopefully there will be time and opportunity to prevent more damage from the many sizable aftershocks they face, and recovery can begin.

All the very best for the people of Japan. My prayer is that they recover soon from this disaster.

-- hello everyone -- the the salt water contamination to farmland will take years to recover. it will take a lot of freshwater to neutralize/dilute the salt but it can and will be done --- the damage in Alaska coastal forests for the most part has been left to natural weathering processes not human intervention & augmentation --- loss of human life is more difficult to bear on a personal level. The desire to learn English causes students to ask for help from someone they have never met I am an English mentor using mostly e-conversation as my classroom and now two of my students have died in earthquake in flooding ---let there be a sheltering hand to all of us -------- ------- ------------------- yours ------------- Mr. Mike J.D.G.