Post Disaster

     It's bad enough when a house or an apartment building is destroyed...a least then the occupants have some time to go through the mess to salvage what they can.

     But the L.A. Times has a story about the enormous challenge ahead for Japan after the earthquake and tsunami. I've never been through a calamity like it, so I hadn't given much thought to it. But just what do you do with hundreds of  tons of trash that used to be a person's home and possessions?



[ALSO: The AP reports this Sunday morning that at least some of that debris will end up on the beaches of the U.S. West Coast...disaster flotsom, But the experts quoted in the article say it will be a year or more before it arrives.]