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Notes from Utsunomiya
Blackouts and gas shortages
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Observations on power conservation & food shortages
Rolling blackout are in effect throughout Kanto but there are so many individuals and businesses trying to conserve energy that only one of the 7 planned outages happened today. Who know about tomorrow, but let me tell you what I saw (and Tod told me about) around in Tokyo today. Train companies reduced services drastically.…
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Maintaining sanity in a stressed environment
Here we are a few days after the big earthquake. Things are grim up north as the death toll rises and tense as nuclear plants struggle to cool their reactors. Around Tokyo we have power shortages with schedule blackouts and a there’s good likelihood of another earthquake that we’ll feel strongly in the next couple…
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Post-quake power issues
Nuclear emergencies and power shortages.
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Grocery non-shopping
Limited options
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The Big One, Bunkyo style
I know where I was when the Big One hit.
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Tokyo Sky Tree
The tallest thing in Tokyo is really quite tall.
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Remarkable Rain Storm
29 mm rainfall. Good morning!
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Haunted Tokyo
Walking among ghosts of the old town.
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Nigouhan Zaka
Entertaining local place name
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