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by cpgxiii 88 days ago
> "well we were hit with a wild tsunami and doubled the nominal price tag of the cleanup with no obvious loss of life or limb"

This is a bit of a wild understatement. (1) the tsunami was by no means wild, as multiple posts here have referenced, and (2) the incident resulted in a number of significant injuries, not including for deaths involved in the evacuation. And those deaths very much count - you can't hand-wave away the consequences of the evacuation on the basis of hindsight that the evacuation was larger than the final outcome necessitated.

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> And those deaths very much count - you can't hand-wave away the consequences

I don't. If it is what it looks like, the government officials that ordered/organised the evacuations should be harshly censured and the next time evacuation orders should be more risk-based and executed in a safer way. What little I've gleaned suggests an appalling situation where a bunch of presumably old people were forced from their homes to their deaths. The main thing keeping me quiet on the topic is I don't speak Japanese and I don't really know what happened in detail there.