There are very few roads that are not cracked and most of the cracks are getting wider due to the afterquakes and stresses due to the distortions caused by all the quakes.
This shed looks okay until you notice that the left end of the wall is detached.
The temporary sewerage is almost finished. It is very simple a containment area with a cover. Later they will bring in the chemical treatment unit and pumps and hoses.
The large orange object is is a plastic tank. I still have not been able to figure out how this will work, but maybe it will be clearer after the piping arrives.
I showed a picture of this, but from a different angle, the last time I visited this area. The paint and the traffic cone were still there. The road is passable so the overworked road crews will just leave it for now. It is going to be interesting to see how much of the damage is just left and how much is repaired.
We just had a shindo 3 earthquake, or I should say earthquakes. There were two, about a minute apart. The NHK news first reported one at 6:14 and then another at 6:16 after which they completely ignored the first one. Maybe they decided that it was all one tremor, but we felt two separate surges of power. The quake was M 4.6 at a depth of 70 kilometers.
I guess this is a good place to tell you about an article in yesterday's newspaper. A doctor, who has been treating people in the areas devastated by the tsunami, says that 60% of the people he has seen are suffering from something he is calling
jishinbyo, or earthquake sickness. It is related to other motion sicknesses: car sickness, sea sickness, air sickness. I certainly have it and I think that it is the main source of the tension I feel each time we have an aftershock or a warning of one.
This is that orange tank that is pictured above. Since it was put in place they have done almost no additional work, so I guess the sewer system is handling things. Of course, it will only be about a month or so before the rainy season begins and things might change.
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