2011-03-13

The Day After

The Catastrophe goes on...  Over 10,000 people are missing...  The casualty is expanding incl. the confirmed victims over 2,000 people...  RIP...

Around 3 p.m. on Friday, March 11th (by JST), the biggest earthquake in Japan hit us. Even in center of Tokyo, it was so scary...

At our office, the bookshelves and chairs were sliding here and there on the floor.  Due to the continuous quakes, almost all the tranportation systems (train, highway, etc.) were paralyzed...  From our office facing the Tokyo Bay, we witnessed the fire at the factories or the oil refinery plants...

Some people were trying to go home earlier by walk (regardless of how many hours it would take), but most of us had to stay at the office till mid-night or over night.  In my case, I had to wait for a train till Saturday morning and took 5 hours to go home (regulary, it would take just over 1 hour).

The next concern will be the shortage of the power supply in Tokyo area.  Due to the suspension of the troubled nuclear power plant operations, we will have to bear the planning black-out for three hours a day from Monday, March 14th (till the paused thermal power plants are in operation to cover the capacity genarated by the troubled power stations).

We do appreciate every efforts possible taken by the SDF soldiers, police officers, fire depatments, etc.  However, it is sad to say that the disaster goes on, even now...

Pray for Japan...

Tsunami awefully devastate everything...

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