Showing posts with label Fukushima. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fukushima. Show all posts

2011-05-31

Disaster area Iwaki in Fukushima

Posted by Michi at 2:47 PM 0 comments

I got my home town Iwaki city last weekend to see my parents.  The house of my parents is fine, but sea side area where  it takes 20 minutes by car from their house has been damaged seriously by the terrible earthquake and the tsunami on March 11th, although over 2 months have passed.  It seems to take very long time to reconstruct all. And Fukushima has still big problem.  The problem of nuclear power plant is still ongoing.  It's annoying  matter for my parents.  When is that settled?

2011-04-15

Fukushima nuclear power plant

Posted by Michi at 3:14 PM 0 comments
My home town is Iwaki in Fukushima where there are the nuclear power plants.  My parents and my sister live there and it's 40 km from the plants. When the plants damaged on March 11, they were not forced to stay at home and to evacuate from their area by Japanese government but cars of Iwaki city council had been running with announcement to people to stay at home. At that time, water had stopped and foods in supermarkets had been shortage for the earthquake.  There were no public transport that railways and highways were seriously damaged, and petrol ran out at all over the city. Many people wanted to use their cars to get water and foods and to leave their home but they couldn't.  Anyway when they need water and foods, they had to go out , and at the same time they were frightened by nuclear radiation.
On March 16 midnight, my family finally evacuated from Iwaki city.  They were not sure, if they had enough petrol to reach my home in Yokohama. But luckily, they were able to arrive here...
Now life line like water, foods and petrol in Iwaki have recovered but still many aftershocks and nuclear problems has continued.
 

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