NYT ran a very moving piece on grief, family, and the Tohoku earthquake/tsunami http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/the-lost-ones.html …
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Among many details: the anecdote about the cell phone provider which cloned the phone of a lost child so parents could keep texting her.
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In the middle of a very tragic situation, there were a lot of small moments of grace like that.
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Two from Ogaki (which, like most of Japan, was unaffected by the disaster per se and mostly experienced it vicariously):
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My bank called me at 9:01 AM on Saturday the day after, took notice of the fact that my balance was low, and offered no-interest no-doc loan
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Manager: "I know you do business in Tokyo and you or your customers might be affected. If you need it, come by. We have money. We can sort
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I've heard many stories about your old Ogaki bank by now, I love em all
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Years later and several hundred miles away I still bank there. Everyone is confused by this. "Why not at BigBank across the street?"
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If they had run on the bank I'd wire my life savings from America, turn it into cash, and deposit it in as public a fashion possible.
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(There was actually an entrepreneur in UK who did this when Northern Rock was having issues. Deposited duffel bags in front of TV.)
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