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Very little physical damage around me, but I’m still a bit distraught. NHK is on the TV behind me. The announcer is relaying personal messages to and from the affected areas.
She reads out the name and address of the sender and recipient, with a one or two sentence message.
“Are you ok? Please call.”
“The children are fine. We are waiting to hear from you.”
They showed people huddling inside a designated evacuation point in a small school in Sendai. When the camera went through the door and cast its lights on the people inside, they covered their eyes. They’d been sitting in the dark, bundled up in winter coats, and listening to the radio. Power is out there.
Temperatures in Sendai are around the 1 degree centigrade mark.
