Spent most of the day napping and enduring more quakes today. In the evening I had dinner with my friend in Ikebukuro (the first time I'd taken a train since the earthquake), and here are some scenes:
People getting information at Nerima (left), and stranded by the closed Seibu express lines in Ikebukuro (right)
People watching the live news at Ikebukuro station (left), super-crowded local trains;
no express to get these commuters home in comfort (right)
no express to get these commuters home in comfort (right)
Seiyu, my local and Wallmart-owned supermarket is my local source of food, and is always so reliable. I was *shocked* when I saw the state of it today compared to yesterday.
This is a long video as I take you around the empty aisles.
Seiyu has become an ice cream and liquor store!
I'm back to work tomorrow but there will be no classes, just a day of catching up with the mounds of paperwork and class preppage. Let's hope my train is running!
Re: the scheduled rolling electricity blackouts, my city, Nerima is not scheduled for any, and luckily neither is Aeon. However, some students are affected, and a city my subway travels through is affected, so I don't know what impact they will have on me.
But my gas is back on, and I have running water, so I'm fine!
Re: the scheduled rolling electricity blackouts, my city, Nerima is not scheduled for any, and luckily neither is Aeon. However, some students are affected, and a city my subway travels through is affected, so I don't know what impact they will have on me.
But my gas is back on, and I have running water, so I'm fine!
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