Tons of Tsunami Debris Heading to US

I suppose when you think about it, where else would it go having been sucked back out to sea.

Everyone thought the horror was over, but the reminders will be with us for a very long time. And I am not talking about the nuclear power plants. We can only put so much of this behind us before we face the inevitable.  Just like the aftermath of the BP Gulf disaster will be with us for a very long time. Only this debris cannot be buried under more sand. It is a vivid reminder of what happened last Winter.  No matter how you attempt to wish it away, pray it away, ignore it, or stop reporting it - the truth is in its very presence of the tsunami that cannot be denied.  Deal with it now, then move on. From Yahoo News:

Some 5 to 20 million tons of debris--furniture, fishing boats, refrigerators--sucked into the Pacific Ocean in the wake of Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami are moving rapidly across the Pacific. Researchers from the University of Hawaii tracking the wreckage estimate it could approach the U.S. West Coast in the next three years, the UK Daily Mail reports.
"We have a rough estimate of 5 to 20 million tons of debris coming from Japan," University of Hawaii researcher Jan Hafner told Hawaii's ABC affiliate KITV.
Crew members from the Russian training ship the STS Pallada "spotted the debris 2,000 miles from Japan," last month after passing the Midway islands, the Mail wrote. "They saw some pieces of furniture, some appliances, anything that can float, and they picked up a fishing boat," said Hafner. The boat was 20-feet long, and was painted with the word "Fukushima."  "That's actually our first confirmed report of tsunami debris," Hafner told KITV.

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And so it goes.
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