3 months later...

iregk

So imagine Ireland was hit with an earthquake, followed by a tsunami, followed by a nuclear meltdown. How long would Ireland take to recover?

We know we would have months of unions arguing about overtime, the army giving out about not having ear muffs and contracts being handed out to mates of politicians for 100 times their value etc... All in all it would take about a year to even start and then about 20 to see any sort of decent progress. Not in Japan, they think differently.

3 months after the sh!t hit the fan over there how do you think Japan is doing?

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/06/japan_three_months_after_the_q.html

kfallon

I'd rather not imagine it, thanks!

Caoimhín

Ive just decided to have a large glass of Bordeaux and some cheese.

Anyone care to join me?

Abi

iregk wrote: »

So imagine Ireland was hit with an earthquake, followed by a tsunami, followed by a nuclear meltdown. How long would Ireland take to recover?

A bit of snow brings the country to a stand-still. We'd be fucked.




I'll have that glass of Bordeaux now Caomhín, thank you.

Dravokivich

A lot of people feel like other people should be doing the work, or that the Gov should be a driving force behind everything and should get stuff fixed up at the click of their heels. A bleeding wreckless sense of entitlement and over eagerness to make themselves a victim. This doesn't just happen in Ireland...

Micky Dolenz

About as long as it will take to get over our economic meltdown.

Son Of A Vidic

The Japanese - a great bunch of lads.






We however, are not Japanese and we would probably never recover.

Cookie_Monster

picture 20 onwards is just incredible, the progress in just three months is a testament to the Japanese!

El Guapo!

It'd probably be better to just sink the country and move somewhere else!

jimthemental

Wouldn't make a difference. We're on a Somalia style slope and were sliding down it slowly but definitely.

Kojak

iregk wrote: »

So imagine Ireland was hit with an earthquake, followed by a tsunami, followed by a nuclear meltdown. How long would Ireland take to recover?

We have enough problems dealing with the EU and IMF without thinking of this kind of thing tbh....

Biggins

The pics of the mess and then the clean-up after, are amazing.
They do that in 3 months. It would Ireland at least 50 committee meetings, 5 survey reports and 10 re-assessments, six months later before we even got to the arranging of funding also for doing similar.
The Japanese are in a league of their own.

GavRedKing

Some great progress there as seen in those pictures, great work doen by all involved from the Japanese themselves and all the international aid works and volunteers.

The King of Moo

We'd still be selecting the committee to choose whose brothers-in-law get the rebuilding contracts.

Great to see the progress made in Japan in those photos. It's the best response to such a disaster: just get on with putting things back together.

ScumLord

Just look at Haiti, 1 year later and people still walk around rubble on the street. The government are more interested in an election than they are in fixing the problem.

I don't think Irish would walk around rubble for a year though, I think like with the snow the locals will be out doing the work themselves when the government lets them down.

squod

Theres a massive problem with the reactors. It won't be six months sorting those out

Son Of A Vidic

Biggins wrote: »

The pics of the mess and then the clean-up after, are amazing.
They do that in 3 months. It would Ireland at least 50 committee meetings, 5 survey reports and 10 re-assessments, six months later before we even got to the arranging of funding also for doing similar.
The Japanese are in a league of their own.

Of course the findings from these committees will end up in Green papers and eventually White papers, which will all end up as .................toilet paper.

Biggins

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Of course the findings from these committees will end up in Green papers and eventually White papers, which will all end up as .................toilet paper.

LOL True - and we'd be paying each time for the paper mess alone!

previous user

If it totally devastated the west side of Ireland including Cork, that wouldn't be so bad.

Duckworth_Luas

Caoimhín wrote: »

Ive just decided to have a large glass of Bordeaux and some cheese.

Anyone care to join me?

What if the Bordeaux came from grapes that had been sprayed with poisonous toxins and the cheese was made with milk from a cow with mad-cow disease and a meteor was about to hit the living room!

General General

It's a good job we situated outselves on an island which isn't prone to volcanoes, earthquakes & tsunamis, isn't it?

Duckworth_Luas

General General wrote: »

It's a good job we situated outselves on an island which isn't prone to volcanoes, earthquakes & tsunamis, isn't it?

Or killer bees!

ColeTrain

previous user wrote: »

If it totally devastated the west side of Ireland including Cork, that wouldn't be so bad.

It wouldn't keep the West down for long, very resilient people there plus the FCA would row in behind us.

jimthemental

ColeTrain wrote: »

It wouldn't keep the West down for long, very resilient people there plus the FCA would row in behind us.

I know what you mean. Getting knocked back to the stone age wouldn't be much of a shock in them parts.

Killer Pigeon

iregk wrote: »

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/06/japan_three_months_after_the_q.html

http://www.thehypertexts.com/images/hiroshima_devestation.jpg

JuliusCaesar

TBH, I think our emergency services and armed forces would pull out all the stops to get stuff done and fixed. One of the main reasons for the slowness is the knowledge that half of the population is only looking for an excuse to start suing somebody, anybody, for some free money. That's why the politicians and money men get in the way. We haven't gone all USA yet with private contractors doing all the work....and most of the services are made up of people who usually go into that line of work for satisfaction, not the money (cos the money aint' that much).

We reap what we sow.