Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

[scrub-jay]

Hang in there Alison. My heart is breaking for the Japanese people right now, as if the devastation from the earthquake and then tsunami was not enough.

[alison]

Thank you. You are so sweet.

[corn poffi]

I just read that AT&T and Verizon are allowing for free calls and texts to Japan until April:

(copied and pasted from geeksugar.com)


AT&T
Effective March 11, and running through March 31, all US AT&T customers will receive:

* Free international calls and text messaging to Japan.
* US landline customers can apply for up to 60 minutes of credits for direct calls to Japan.

Verizon
Effective March 11, and running through April 10, Verizon is offering up the following:

* All post-paid wireless accounts (receiving a bill at the end of the month) can make international calls, texts, and MMS to Japan free of charge.
* All calls to Japan made from US landlines will be free.
* All charges for calls made to Japan from prepaid phone cards will be waived.
* Verizon will be providing FiOS customers free access to TV Japan (channel 1770) through March 17.
* All text messages made to one of the many available donation numbers can be made free of charge.

[Thirteen]

Our extended family in Japan is okay. Thank goodness!

IF YOU WANT TO HELP WITH RELIEF EFFORTS: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/13...-you-can-help/

Your heart just tears apart watching all the death and destruction in Japan, and now all of this talk of nuclear meltdowns.........thoughts are with everyone in Japan at the moment.

[SoonerTexan]

All 2100 of my company's Japan employees are safe--I think that is pretty amazing, considering two manufacturing sites are in the affected region. Maybe because everyone was at work? Either way, that was nice news to hear. It's interesting to see how this is affecting the business side of things...it is pretty bad for some groups right now. Of course, it is nothing compared to the true devastation over there.