Whats been going on.

Ok,
so as everyone knows, there was a huge Earthquake in the Tohoku area, followed by a large tsunami that devastated much of the north eastern coast of Japan.  A Nuclear Plant in the Fukushima area also took a lot of damage, causing panic all throughout the Tohoku region from the North of Japan down to Tokyo and even farther.  Even though there was little to no affect in the air, panic did occur causing many people to flee south or even out of Japan.  Classes at Temple University were canceled for about 3-4 weeks causing a somewhat extended semester as well as classes to be affected (i.e. no "real" exams, and etc).  In Documentaries class, 90% of the class is working on a group project documenting people (ex-pats who fled Tokyo but came back when the scare went somewhat away, people in the Sendai area that were affected by the tsunami, ex-pats that stayed in the Tokyo area despite the crisis and etc) as a history project for the web.  I am working/have been working on Ex-Pats that stayed in Tokyo/fled to the south of Japan but came back.  I have interviewed Brent Specht, who is 29 years old, about why he stayed in the Tokyo area amidst the panic and how he was affected in the Tokyo area.  I also interviewed a 26 year old English Teacher who fled south for about 2 weeks with his pregnant wife and why he decided to do so.  Both have interesting stories on what happened during the situation and why they chose to do what they did.