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Monday, March 14, 2011

PostHeaderIcon HOARDING, LONG WAITS FOR SUPPLIES IN JAPAN AFTER QUAKE

8:45:00 PM | Posted by Sukh Sandhu | Edit Post




Off Japan's northeastern coast, an oil tanker lay eerily stranded in shallow water. Inland, in Sendai, a black mini-van perched perilously on a metal post.

In one town, Minamisanriku in Miyagi prefecture, as many as 9,500 were people could not be contacted, about half its population, Kyodo reported.

Cellphones remained down for much of the region and more than 5 million people were without power.

In Mito, another town in the area, long lines formed outside a damaged supermarket as hundreds waited for medicine, water and other supplies. Supplies ran low as people stocked up, not knowing how long it would take for fresh goods to arrive.

"All the shops are closed, this is one of the few still open. So I came to buy and stock up on diapers, drinking water and food," Kunio Iwatsuki, 68, told Reuters.

In Rikuzentakata, a nearly flattened village in far-northern Iwate prefecture, survivors scrambled to retrieve their belongings, at times clambering over uprooted trees and overturned cars to reach leveled homes.

The Japan Rail service was in chaos, some of its cars buried in mud or laying twisted on farmland. Four trains in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures were missing.

Oil leaked from a refinery into the harbor of Shiogama City in Miyagi.

In Tokyo, where many have long feared the prospect of another monster earthquake of the scale that killed about 140,000 people in 1923, residents struggled to come to terms with damage inflicted on the country and their city.

Some were relieved the damage in the capital was not greater, but many remained panic-stricken about the continuing chaos elsewhere, especially as radiation leaked from the nuclear reactor in Fukushima prefecture.

"People make manuals for earthquakes, but when the earthquake actually happens, can you actually follow the manual?" said 60-year-old officer worker Kiyoshi Kanazawa.

"Everyone runs away when things are shaking, and they ask you to stop the gas and fire in your house, but you do not have enough space for this in your brain."

(Writing by Jason Szep; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan - Reuters)
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