Not Just A Song By The Manics

There’s not much left to say is there? Especially with the terrible disaster happening when I was away from broadband internet access and so am blogging about it late.

It’s my personal connections that’ve brought it home to me, rather than the blanket news coverage.

The sister of a friend is out travelling in the area, and for a while they didn’t know if she was okay - luckily she decided to move on and missed the tsunami by hours.

Evelyn Rodriguez, one of my regular reads, wasn’t quite as fortunate but survived (largely) unscathed and has been providing lots of useful information and stories since. Start reading from her post in the immediate aftermath.

There’s another personal report here, and the Guardian has a roundup of reports from blogs.

And finally, in case you haven’t yet helped out, here’s the link to DONATE TO THE EARTHQUAKE APPEAL.