Even as the Japanese government struggled to get a handle on the number of dead and missing after the record 8.9 earthquake and resulting tsunami, at least one Bow
nsville couple stationed on a military base there is OK."The ground shook and we were scared," Juanita Escamada told relatives over her cell phone. "Deja tu, el peste."
In one prefecture in northern Japan, more than 9,500 townspeople were reported missing. And the Japanese government listed five nuclear plants on emergency status after the top of a container dome exploded and radioactive cessium gas was released into the atmosphere.
A massive evacuation and relocation effort involving more than 80,000 people living within 20 kilometers around the plants is now under way.
However, the readers of the local newspaper learned that Juanita and her husband Pancho (Frankie to his friends) were just fine.
"We ran outside with the rest of the people in the neighborhood," Pancho said. "Then there were a lot of aftershocks. It's was real scary."
"As long as we know Juanita and Pancho and the kids are fine, that's what we care about," said Juanita's mother in the Southmost area. "Who cares about the Japanese? There's lot of them over there."
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