I was traveling to Japan to visit Toshiba's Oita fab and Shinagawa office. I had just landed (Tue evening there), got to the hotel, turned on the TV and there it was, couldn't believe what I was watching. All flights back to US were canceled. I had an extra bag, delivery for a friend of friend at US naval base near Tokyo. The based also locked down. So I dragged the bag with me the rest of the week, while we tried to work out how to get back to US. Finally things opened up towards the end of the week. I handed off the bag, and got on a flight home. It's the emptiest flight I've ever been on, everyone had a row to themselves. Not many people wanted to fly I guess. When I got home my cellphone was full of messages from my parents. I went to college in NYC. Since my phone didn't work in Japan, they couldn't get in touch, and thought I might have gone to NYC to see friends and something happened, and freaked out. Thankfully no one I know directly from college in NY were hurt.