At times yesterday, I could see Mona getting a little stressed as we sat listening to the various speakers give their spiel about a whole range of issues. One of the speakers that stressed Mona a little gave a talk about emergency preparedness. He talked about earthquakes, tsunamis and typhoons. The good news - because of the base location and its geographical landscape, is that tsunamis are not likely in this area. The bad news is that earthquakes of some sort will occur - the question of how much concern for us will be how close and how strong the earthquakes are. Typhoons will also occur and again, similar to earthquakes, the question of how much we will be impacted depends on how close and how strong the typhoon is.
She relaxed when we talked about the fact that we have the same issues back home - earthquakes in California, hurricanes along the Gulf Coast and tornadoes in Texas and Oklahoma. (of course, I didn't point out that those examples are spread out over an entire country and not focused in one small area. I will save that for another day).
About the time she calmed down about the possible natural disasters, we had another speaker that started talking about Japanese prisons and rights of the accused. A lot different than back home.
Again I was able to calm Mona - this time by pointing out that we don't do the things that would cause us to be arrested or thrown into Japanese prisons.
Then they started talking about the issues of driving in Japan - crowded, narrow streets, the way Japanese insurance works and how traffic accidents are handled.
She again calmed down, this time by us deciding that we will drive slowly and carefully.
And then......
As I finish writing this, I realize that I probably should have titled this post Mona and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
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