Earthquake / Tsunami Day 2
I promised an update and so here it is...
Well it's been more than a full day and the damages have been coming in all day.
As devastating as it has been, we are lucky to be living far enough away to have felt nothing other than the initial quake. In Toyota, mostly its life as normal, (except for that everyone is glued to the TV watching the updates).
Itsuki's family are still without water, but they do have electricity and are all accounted for. Unfortunately, Itsuki's dad is stuck in Tokyo and still can't get back to help with the clean up.
Aftershocks that had been happening every 10 minutes (magnitude 3.0) for the last 24 hours have now spaced out to about 1 or 2 every hour. Once again we can't feel them because they're small and far away.
Some of you may have also heard about and explosion at the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor. The area was evacuated to a 15Km radius in advance and they felt that was a safe distance... so hopefully it will be maintained within that radius. Itsuki's parents, who also live in Fukushima, live a in a very different region nearly 80Km away.
We're hopnig for an end to the quakes so a focus on rescue can be solidified.
More updates to follow.
posted by Graham @ 4:43 AM
1 Comments:
Hi Graham,
Words can't really describe the emotions that we have gone through this last weekend. After having gone through a fairly big earthquake ourselves a few weeks ago, it felt like were reliving it all over again. Dave used to live in Sendai, my Aunt (who is now in Canada) is from Sendai, and we have many friends in Yamagata. We have been in touch with our friends in Yamagata, but as with everyone else cannot reach people in Sendai. We watched live, the horror that the tsunami unleashed in Tohoku. I am so glad you and your family are safe. My thoughts are with your wife's family as they cope with what is going on. Stay safe.
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