Thanks for the support, guys.
I'm not sure what the media is reporting overseas (living in Japan since '06), but I hope they're informing the rest of the world just how wonderful the Japanese have been in the face of this disaster. NO riots. NO violence. NO finger pointing. Everybody waits in line for their rations and just generally tries to have everything run as smooth as possible. The rest of the world could learn a very valuable lesson from this.
People crack jokes about how "immature" Japanese culture is, but when the shit hits the fan, they act like better humans than a lot of countries I could name. Makes me proud to live here (sorry friends and family, I will not be "coming home" any time soon).
From what little English language news reports I've seen, it looks like they're just trying to scare the crap out of everybody (fear sells and all that).
Thanks again for your thoughts.