A note from the not so "clearly ignorant" author
Hi Paul Wick,
When I wrote about deaths from the catastrophe, I meant the earthquake and tsunami. You're right that the word "catastrophe" is imprecise, but since most people know that the deaths were due to the tsunami and earthquake, it didn't occurred to me that someone would think that I was implying people died from the nuclear incident, since there were no deaths from that.
Laura