As I would suspect, many of the blog posts that have been uploaded so far dealing with the March 11th disaster, have focused the sudden shock, the feeling of helplessness and also the notion that you were taking part in a piece of history that will be remembered for a long time.
Especially the chaotic first hours can be a fascinating, but also scary, thing to read about - as the once so orderly human civilization stops to a halt, and descends into an uncertain stasis. The role of social media in this disaster is also unparalleled, and never before has people found so many different - and in a way anarchic - ways of communicating, across borders, timezones and other barriers. Definitely a positive result and a curious side effect to the debated globalisation issue.
If I was to sum up the general feeling of the blog posts in one sentence, it would have had to be; Being struck down to earth, once again in touch with ones mortality, and the sudden rush as the world in a fraction of a second turns just infinitely more big, wild and uncontrollable.
... and yet, at the same time the world became so much smaller as everyone everywhere knew what has happend just a few minutes later.
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