Oh, Japan

Such a terrifying earthquake, compounded by the horrific tsunami.  Video footage on all the news is almost incomprehensible - walls of mud and flaming debris sweeping across roads and farmlands.  Swirling whirlpools.  Trains, cars, boats, all tossed about mercilessly.  People huddled together.  Buildings cracked, fallen.  Roads split.  Unimaginable.

And a lone white flag being waved out of a window of a half-destroyed, half-submerged, house, as the news helicopter flew by. 

I cannot even imagine the sorrow and fear of the Japanese people.  My thoughts and prayers are with them.