Saturday, March 19, 2011

Fine

We are fine, and safe up here in Hokkaido.

Still very worried and stressed out about people down south, esp. in Iwaki-shi which it seems is being overlooked still. Last night on the news they said they have many faxes from people in Iwaki, and read out several, including one from a mother of a 1-year-old with a 40 degree fever, and a 2-month-old whose life many be in danger from lack of milk. Sekkaku iki-nokotta no ni.

As far as our lives up here in Hokkaido, we are conserving kerosene (heating fuel) and gasoline, and while I noticed a few blank spots on the supermarket shelves, they appeared to be mainly very random items - probably just certain specific items whose production or supply chain has been disrupted. Similar items right next to them were still fully stocked.

2 comments:

Mama Nabi said...

Are you still hanging in there? Hope things aren't as dire as some of the media reports can make it sound. Thinking of you and your family...

Christie D. said...

We are doing fine, thanks!! We are far away and in many ways Hokkaido is self-contained. I ordered heating fuel for the first time since the disaster, today, and was not told anything unusual about supply problems or anything. More worried about the people in the disaster area, and also the country as a whole -- how it will manage when so many large companies are being affected by power outages and down factories, etc.