She glances over to Sally, and if the clerk wasn't checking, made notice of the problem in order to explain.  She then pulled out her cell phone, doing some research about Chad and distance.<br/><br/>Her first thought was to try to figure out some way to help out, but there didn't seem to be one.  She couldn't even get there for at least 12 hours, probably a lot more if she did the proper math.  However, it definitely fit with the types of places that she wanted to help fix, at least as much as she could read through a standard entry.<br/><br/>When it came down to it, though, she didn't speak the language and neither did any of her troops.  It was just something that she was going to have to accept and defer for the time being.<br/><br/>"There'll be time for it when you can," Valerie said.  "It's totally not your fault that there's an earthquake...if it really is an earthquake..."  That last bit was concerning her.