Earthquake Diary 30

 This is the rest of the line that I showed in the last post. The end is somewhere out of the picture on the left.

 They were selling prepacked bags of food. You had no choice but the selection was all things that most families would need, and you could swap with some else later if you did not want something.

 After you got one of the prepacked bags which are one the ground in the foreground, you got in another line to buy dry goods.

 Here the woman in the brown coat is getting a prepacked bag. At this point everyone had so little that, if you saw a line, you joined it because it might be something you need or at least something that friends might need. Also, there was little else to do, what with no TV, no internet, no water, and no electricity.

 The newspaper was published in a 12 page edition beginning on the day after the quake. This is a picture of the information page. The black bars are general headings and then under those are the information that the newspaper had at the time. This info included such things as when stores would be open and when things could be expected to reopen, especially the various types of transportation.

 A little bit of rain did not stop people from standing in line.

To add to the general misery, it snowed but not too much.