I don't know what Japan must've done to karmically "deserve" all of this from Mother Nature, but I really do hope they can catch a breather. A friend of mine was attending school in Tokyo, which if I remember wasn't too badly harmed from the recent tsunami, but still. He wasn't too keen with everything that was going on and felt it was better to err on the side of caution and come back to the states.
Regardless, I just hope it's over.