This is the base of the high tension power transmission tower that is right beside our apartment complex. When I left in the morning, there was a crew working here but when I returned they had gone. However, in the meantime they had fixed all the cracks in the concrete. The line that goes from the foreground post to the tower is fresh adhesive of some kind. Now that it is dried, it looks very strong.
My wife and I were about to turn into our complex, but we saw this fire truck down by the river and decided to investigate. The crane is supporting a basket and that basket is supporting a large yellow hose, which goes to a pump in the truck and then continues along the riverside.
A hundred meters or so down river the hose is placed so that the water that is coming out of it goes back into the river.
Another fire truck was parked a little further on down the river. After wondering about it a little bit, we realized that they were practicing for the work that is going on at the nuclear plant in Fukushima. The hose is large, heavy and awkward, so without practice, it would be very hard to use for real. They are drawing firefighters from all overt he country to work on the nuclear site. They spend just a short time there, limiting their exposure, and then they return home.
This is a concrete stairway into a playground. The entire staircase with all its foundation move about two meters during the quake
Here is another view of it from the other side.
On the way home, we usually cross a levee between two ponds (the one on the left is higher than the one on the right). However, it was closed because of damage. I was tempted to just duck under the tape but then I realized that it looked like it really was dangerous, so we walked around the pond on the right.
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