Tokyo Day 6 – known knowns and known unknowns
Things are not going well in Japan unfortunately.
After the earthquake and tsunami, there are some reports of a volcano starting off on one of the southern islands. It’s not being widely covered yet, but I guess we may be waking up to it tomorrow, especially if that creates an ash cloud that disrupts air travel. The only bright side there would be that this volcano has a name that newsreaders should be able to pronounce.
Another problem is that the people are losing confidence in the government – people are complaining that their statements and news conferences aren’t giving clear information, which is making people more worried rather than less.
We’re also now preparing ourselves for rolling power blackouts tomorrow, which may or may not mean that people won’t go to work. If there is no power, there will be train disruption, and that means people will stay put.
No power also means no Internet for me, so I’ll probably go quiet in the afternoon for the duration of the outage.
Off to bed now. G’night all.
Tags: Earthquake, Travel