We have a scheduled blackout today from 15:20 to 19:00. It is part of a rolling plan to save power in the Tokyo area. Excepted Tokyo downtown, all areas are affected and divided into 5 zones.
The blackouts are scheduled to last until end of April.
For houses, it only means no electricity, but in our condo it also means no gas nor water.
So, people in our area rushed to buy : flashlights, water bottles/tanks, dry food, gas cannisters, portable toilets...
The fact that the branch shops sent the stocked supplies north to Sendai is a good thing overall, but it made the goods even scarcer here. There were long waiting lines at the nearest appliances store, Yamada.
Trains will also have to stop to cope with the blackout, so going to Tokyo for work can mean a really painful way home, since the segments are in different blackout zones.
Anyways, my office is being checked for cracks, if there is any I'd rather not be there as the next aftershock strikes.
Once again, I am very impressed by the calm and solidarity people display in these circumstances. Elderly give money, most services are volunteered-powered and don't stop, and the TV is spouting only a little scare : there were no commercials over the weekend for instance.
This nation being strong is not due to chance.
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C'est une bonne nouvelle que t'ailles bien en tout cas. On sait quelque chose de ce que ça peut produire, un tremblement de terre pareil. T'arrives quand même à dormir la nuit avec les répliques ?
Bon courage pour traverser toute cette période !
Flo et Jeff
On fait aller, merci les kiwis !! :)
Even if you can go at work, how will you work in the blackout times ? (:
Clearly french are selfish. And what happen now in France ?... Manifestations for stopping the nuclear technology...
And yesterday they debated at TV about the japanese's nuclear threat but there was NO words about Japan... just a fight pro-nuclear vs anti-nuclear ...
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