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Japan News (4/26)
Apr. 26th, 2011 03:44 pm4/22
The quake yesterday apparently dropped some suspended ceilings. The news people are trying to explain that a long wave flex affects some different things. Anyway, a ceiling fell in a symphony hall during a performance. Someone caught probably on a cell phone video of people in suits jumping on to the fallen ceiling materials and pulling it away. I think there were two dead. A swimming pool also lost its ceiling. Some other damage here and there.
( this and that )
Oh, and there was a piece about the SDF troops. There's about 20,000 people out there. They're sleeping four to a tent. Eating field rations (which they showed -- canned stuff for lunch! I don't think I've ever seen canned rice before. They do get fresh rice, miso soup, and grilled fish for dinner, apparently.) Apparently they are under orders to not eat in sight of the civilians, so they are eating in trucks, tents, or otherwise. Washing... not so often, apparently. Large plastic bath, and once every 3 to 4 days. I gather that at least one of the higher ups is grousing about not normally sending the troups into this kind of situation for this long -- it's been quite a while. And if the reporter had it right, they are still in fast deployment housing and food.
The quake yesterday apparently dropped some suspended ceilings. The news people are trying to explain that a long wave flex affects some different things. Anyway, a ceiling fell in a symphony hall during a performance. Someone caught probably on a cell phone video of people in suits jumping on to the fallen ceiling materials and pulling it away. I think there were two dead. A swimming pool also lost its ceiling. Some other damage here and there.
( this and that )
Oh, and there was a piece about the SDF troops. There's about 20,000 people out there. They're sleeping four to a tent. Eating field rations (which they showed -- canned stuff for lunch! I don't think I've ever seen canned rice before. They do get fresh rice, miso soup, and grilled fish for dinner, apparently.) Apparently they are under orders to not eat in sight of the civilians, so they are eating in trucks, tents, or otherwise. Washing... not so often, apparently. Large plastic bath, and once every 3 to 4 days. I gather that at least one of the higher ups is grousing about not normally sending the troups into this kind of situation for this long -- it's been quite a while. And if the reporter had it right, they are still in fast deployment housing and food.
