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Japan's aftermath keeps one local family trapped in country
Posted: 03.18.2011 at 11:53 PM
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Conway's Kevin and Liz Taylor get wake up calls at 4 am daily. The only way their daughter, Lisa Mates, can contact them is through the internet on skype.

Lisa lives on the Yokuska Military Base in Japan. Her husband is a nuclear engineer for the U.S. Navy. Yokuska is about 200 miles from the Fukushima Power Plant where officials are concerned a possible meltdown could occur.

With radiation concerns in the country, the U.S. Government has begun voluntary evacuations of the base, but the Taylors say they are only offering reimbursements for the cost to leave.

"We would fly them home," says Liz Taylor. "But the tickets are now 3 or 4 times more than they were a week ago. We can't afford $2500 per ticket."

Adding to this mother and father's concern is Lisa's husband, Justin, was sent to the Persian Gulf, and now Lisa is left in the country alone to look after her three children, nine-year-old Corey, four-year-old Conner, and fourteen-month-old Lennox.

"I contacted every single person from the President all the way down has gotten an email from me personally," says Liz. "(Jim)DeMint gave me a 1-800 number which I called two days ago. They said the plans were going to start coming in to take them out as of yesterday and nothings happened."

"It's the unknown that's kind of scary I guess." says Lisa Mates over skype.

"If everything works, we're completely safe right now. It's just precautionary measure to get us away from anything that might happen."

However, precautionary measures doesn't mean any action for the Taylors. It just means they'll keep getting a call every morning around 4am.

 

 

 

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