Tonight I am writing from CRASH Iwate Base in Tono City. Tonight we have 14 people staying here, most of whom have been out working in the disaster area all day. I am mostly in the management role keeping this place running, but I have made it out to the disaster area a couple of times.
\n Further south, in Sendai City and near the nuclear power plant, conditions are much worse, but things here in Tono are not bad. We do have aftershocks several times a day, even as I am typing, we just has a shake of about M3 or M4. But, we have food and water, electricity, and kerosene for the heaters. The stores are open and have at least some stock of food and supplies, although only about one fourth of what they normally have. Here, almost all of the damage is right along the coast where the tsunami hit; there is only a little visible earthquake damage. At the coast, the destruction is horrifying, thousands of homes and businesses swept away by the tsunami, cars littered about like toys, boats on top of buildings or swept up streets. Sometimes the scene would be funny if it was not so terrible – yesterday I saw a car balanced on top of a washing machine inside a building. There is a surreal aspect of it when you leave the coast – a five minute drive from the destruction, you can stop and get a coke from a vending machine – a short distance from the coast, life goes on almost normally. I think the psychological impact will hit later for many people.
\n Thank you for your prayers. God be with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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