It was a very beautiful Friday (11 March 2011) afternoon when my hubby just left home after lunch. I stand near the window for a while to enjoy the view outside my house after hubby left. It was about 1pm then...as usual after that I cleared the dishes and kitchen before I can sit down and watch my drama on TV. It was about 2-40 p.m when suddenly I felt as if my sofa I sat on was moving a bit, shaking but very slowly. I thought to myself, yeah this must be the earthquake la...I have experience a very small earthquakes few times since I came to Japan.. you will just feel like you having migraine.
Out of a sudden, my house was shaking, the tv and the coffee table too... everything on my cabinet fall down. I was in terrible panic and shocked... internet line and phone line automatically stopped. I took my hp and quickly ran out of my house quickly Without switching off my tv and laptop and without putting on my shoes and sweater. I saw the cars parked outside my house were also shaking. I started crying when I tried to call my hubby and I couldn't reached him, I prayed hard...Please help me Allah! I was really scared the whole building was shaking as if it was going to collapse anytime. I dont know what to do, I just tried to call my hubby again and again. It was freezing outside. Then when the shaking started to slow down I went into my house...almost everything fall down...my kitchen was in a mess too. Within few minutes the earthquake hit again. I ran out again...almost 4 times I've been running in and out then I saw my hubby's car entering our parking area. I feel so relieved. As my hubby entered our house I ran towards him and hugged him tight and cried out loud. My hubby was speechless he just hold me tight in his arms and I can see tears in his eyes. I dont know what would happen if my hubby didnt come back at that point of time. I love my hubby so much...he will always be there for me whenever I needed him. Thanks hubby...
For my hubby this is not his first experience, he had experienced Niigata Chuetsu earlier as I mentioned in my earlier post. He had learned a lot about earthquake when he experienced the Niigata Chuetsu earthquake, therefore even though it was a scary moment but he still can control himself to stay calm.
Yonezawa city is located in the center between the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan. Earthquake is rare phenomenon here, therefore most of people here are not well prepared. Most of the people were panic, as I can see near my area, all of them ran out of their house.The most scary thing when big earthquake like this occurred is all live line such as electric powers, water, phone lines will be out of order.
After a big earthquake like this, there will be a series of aftershock, therefore hubby decided that we should not stay in the house for a while. He took his car and we went to the petrol station to refill petrol for our car, then we went to buy some instant foods in case of emergency. At that moment no one were rushing to buy things yet because most of the people still don’t know what to do. Then we went to hubby's company to report and he took his notebook pc home.
At that evening when I watched TV, I was really shocked with the scale of the tsunami. The real panic happened the next day when everybody started filling petrol and buying everything in the shop. In a day all petrol, foods, daily supplies are gone! Therefore I will have to cook with whatever we have left at home.
Earthquake and tsunami destroyed most of logistic network in TOHOKU. Most of supplies are stopped and it started to turn to negative spiral when all oil and petrol are not enough for transportations. All petrol stations are closed they only have petrol for emergency usage such as ambulance, police patrol car and etc. During weekend we just stayed at home gathering information. Now at these moment supplies started to come but still have a lot of limitations. We waited for almost 2 hours or more 6:50am~9:00am just to fill about 20 litres of petrol which is less than ½ tank. Foods also very limited. The main reason is most of people are hoarding so there is not enough oil and supplies for affected area. It is getting better now, I was really sad and ironic without been noticed the people in safer place slowdown the supplies for needed ones. Nobody doing it purposely but it is how the economy works. We are all connected in economic world. Another reason why supplies is slow is due to the earthquake, oil factories and logistic companies have to check their facilities first to ensure the safety. I hope by next week most of logistic problems can be solved because most of disaster area needed supplies as soon as possible.
Hubby started working on 14th March as usual. I was still scared because the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plan still in critical situation. However my hubby as Top Manager, he have to show his commitment towards the company, two of their factories had been destroyed by tsunami and another one in Sendai city had major damage because of earthquake. I really understand my hubby's situation and let him go to work.
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Station situation not showing any good results, I believe Japanese Government and Tokyo Power Corp with solve this problem. Yonezawa city is just 97km from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant The radiation level is rising up however it is still in a safe zone. I hope they can solve this problem before it became worst. I am also worried about how radiation will affect the soil, water and air for future.
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