Japan

I don't have anything to say. How could you have anything to say? What is there to say?

The footage is overwhelming. As you watch the water move inexorably across the land, sweeping with it everything in its path, you realize that entire communities have just been removed from the face of the earth, as if they'd never been there at all. The only thing remaining of some of them is going to be the people who managed to get out, and the debris that washes onto shores when the waters recede.

It's a staggering, sickening sight. The only appropriate response for those of us to far away to help is prayer.