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"Tomorrow I will get up early and join the jolly line for my five items."Facebook notes and pictures from an Expatica editor's British friend who lives near the heart of the post- tsunami disaster area in Japan.
"House is okay.
"It’s all been very random, some houses like mine are 100 percent okay…others look like this.
"We lined up for two hours yesterday for bananas and eggs, banana never tasted so good! I was expecting food delivery--seikyo- the day of the quake so we had little food left but we are managing on rice now we have power and eggs. Gasoline they say will take one month? We are out of kerosene so pretty cold. But we are ALIVE so can't complain..."
"On a lighter note; what boyz end up doing when computer blog/i-pod/cell phone are no longer possible:
"(I have some info that it is under control; it's my American friends that scare me so with American TV news...)
"We are staying in. Tomorrow I will get up early and join the jolly line for my five items. It's really no biggie...nothing else to do: there is no work, school, job, everything came to a standstill for now.
"Now we are being told to refrain from overstocking supplies...what supplies? What overstocking? Somebody isn't playing fair maybe..."
Lining up for black-market food supplies.
Update 18 March:
"So today it was my youngest son's turn to wait in the jolly line (we call it that to keep morale up, makes us smile anyway ;). But ohdear, not the worlds greatest shopper: Two boxes tissues, two small packets wet tissues, more dogfood (he does love Polly) and some hair conditioner and two energy drinks. Hmmm. Better luck tomorrow :p."
"There is nothing to do right now but pray the power line is finished fast for the reactors to cooldown and that it is effective. God bless the Japanese working on that. That the radiation zone stays contained at 30km (we are 100km from it). TV today promises us more aid/food etc up north within three days.. : )
If you still don't have information on your friends and family in the disaster zone, contact your local embassy or consulate or try using Google's people finder.
Expatica/ Natasha Gunn
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