I probably over-reacted but it's obvious that people living through an event like this are going to be emotional, we had no sleep and people we knew were missin

I probably over-reacted but it's obvious that people living through an event like this are going to be emotional, we had no sleep and people we knew were missing. I also have prior experience with disasters, I provided technical support to the engineers in the NZ Urban Search and Rescue teams in Christchurch, and saw the devastation first hand as I was setting up remote offices within the red-zone and rescuing computer equipment from buildings that were missing walls. I also saw people working frantically to extract survivors from collapsed buildings as we went by. I lived in the same house and often shared rooms with those engineers that were doing the rescuing work, and I saw the harried expressions on their faces every day. So I reserve the right to ask people to respect the situation at hand.