The Battle Rages On

My world just got a little crazier...at 11:30am local time, I was informed that theYokosuka (an hour and a half from us) naval base commander told people over the louder speakers that "they had discovered radiation there but that it was a small amount and nothing to worry about"...... and the fall out begins....A 3rd reactor had a hydrogen explosion this morning around dawn and a 4th is on it's way to melttdown,  adding even more fear to the possibility of even more exposure for us. Atsugi Naval base (just 25 minutes southwest of us) has taken serious procautions by instructing people to not leave their house and keep the children in school. I talked to a neighbor who just happen to arrive home and he inofrmed me that some "higher up" people are upset that this has become public knowledge, and that because of his civilian position and the fact that his wife is a soldier, prevents them from leaving but they were immediately calling family so that they could send their two small children back to the states....I don't want to overreact to this but it's not hard as a mother and woman to always feel so stongly about the precautions and protection of your child from whatever the world exposes to him. I'm so scared, honestly, of the invisible threat that is radiation. The Army here has spoke nothing of evacuation which makes me even more worried of what they are willing to put us through.

I don't know, I really don't know anymore....I'm already looking for tickets out of the country but the expense of flying Riordan and I on a day or two's notice internationally is ridiculously expensive and will most likely consume most, if not all, of our savings...Some very wonderful people in my family have touched our hearts with their offers of places to stay through friends they have accumulated on the US coast and Hawaii...Bless their hearts because I cannot express how much it means to me...and yet there are no signs of evacuation here...just a decision we will likely have to make as a family. Just to be bluntly obvious though, How dare the military keep as at risk and then expect low paid soldiers who mostly live on one income overseas to find their own way out....but don't blame Obama lol, It's a local command decision.

I am only one voice in this. People like one of my neighbor's, whose husband is deployed to Iraq, is forced to go at this on her own with one toddler and one baby on the way. I cannot imagine the isolation and fear that she feels.

How do I fight this battle? Overreaction is for those judging but winning this fight could be as simple as heading for the hills of safety on our own terms?! and Though only aftershocks remind us of the major earthquake that has past, we have our children to remind us of the further trials and fears we face from the aftermath....

I am so grateful for your continued prayers! and even more grateful that you can hear my voice from so far away.