Sendai, Special Envoy - The cold and rain have done their return, Tuesday, March 15, Sendai, as the latest in a long series of punishments. After the earthquake that has shaken after the tsunami that destroyed his side, after nuclear accidents which directly threaten the city shudders today in innumerable queues that stretch along its sidewalks.
However, this delay would be nothing if climate change was a possible harbinger of bad news for the city. The arrival of depression makes, indeed, unpredictable winds that, from January to March, in principle come from the west and southwest, pushing toward the ocean rather a possible radioactive cloud.
If things got worse still in the plant in Fukushima, a distance of only 100 km, and the winds, yet highly variable, poorly navigated the rain will then exacerbate the risk of contamination to its one million inhabitants. For many, these assumptions reinforce the feeling of having escaped the tsunami than to find himself caught in a trap from which they can not extricate themselves.
"How can I hope to escape the radioactive cloud if we do not give me more than ten gallons of gasoline after hours of waiting?", A motorist was annoyed, caught in one of these lines of cars that can reach a mile long. The city is thus divided into two, reflecting its new geography between a coastline ravaged by the tsunami and a town center with all buildings still stand, like ghosts.
In Sendai, there are those who mourn their dead, or still looking. And others who s'angoissent, and dream of leaving. These people not only seek fuel for their cars, the only way to go fast, since there are no trains. They also swell the queues of people trying their luck with the bus companies to embark on a long journey to Tokyo via the neighboring prefectures.
Employees who were on a business trip to Sendai, where the earthquake took place, all hoping for a place in one of these buses. Those who were stranded at the railway station have been grouped in the nearest school. They are still more than a hundred sleeping on the floor of the premises icy - gas heating no longer works in the city - waiting for a chance to go home.
"Local authorities have been able to do from their families, but we, ordinary citizens, we are doomed to remain stuck there," complains Aochi. Three times a day in the courtyard of the school, also formed a long queue, the more frequent the streets of Sendai: one for food, and water is lacking so much.
It never ceases to wrap around blocks, and the calm of the participants completed to give the city the look of polished end of the world. The resort's buildings, set back from the sea, set the scene at first unchanged. But behind their facades intact, nothing works as before. The heating and hot water are memories, interiors devastated by the earthquake.
Almost all hotels of the city were closed, not even deemed fit to accommodate survivors. The other Sendai, the coastal districts ravaged by the tsunami, is unable to keep up appearances. It is just a big chaos. In the port area, the last standing water eventually dissipate Monday. Providing access to a tangle of amazing cars, trucks, cargo and warehouse gutted.
Young, quickly adapted to the economy of survival that is set up, realized that there was an untapped resource. They come from the city by bike, jerry cans on the rack, trying to siphon the tank vehicle wrecks. With a shovel, soldiers try to make a path to what was a void. Employees of an enterprise zone business groups to walk the carcass of their former workplace, in the hope of finding the remains of one of their colleagues, who disappeared the day of the disaster.
Residential neighborhoods near the port, have a little more resilient. Protected by the railroad, their houses were not all destroyed. But their condition has forced their inhabitants, again, to take refuge in schools closest to the door invariably covered with posters designed to regain lost.
In one of them, dozens of families settled in the gym, where two small gas stoves are struggling against the cold. For days they wait. What? Zenichi, sexagenarian who settled there with several friends, said he hopes for nothing. "The government lies to us all as responsible nuclear power.
I do not think even our newspapers, which tell the truth than the current date. With this disaster, I realized that they could not trust anyone "he said. Without hope of escaping the trap of Sendai Zenichi ensures that only awaits the daily distributions of food, largely from convoys sent from all over Japan.
The vast majority of trucks pass by a single track, the highway reserved for emergency between Tokyo and Sendai. This channel allows supply to maintain, somehow, the city on a drip. But what if the nuclear disaster in progress at the Fukushima plant, located near the highway were to be cut? The trap would be permanently closed Sendai its inhabitants.
Japan, the culture of disaster in Japan, announced a nuclear catastrophe Nuclear accident: a dramatic cape was taken to Austin but mobilized Fukushima, NHK television serves as a "lifeline" to the Japanese Electricity: energy savings and imports Russian envisaged After resisting, the Tokyo Stock Exchange suffered a crash Article published in the edition of 16.03.11 
However, this delay would be nothing if climate change was a possible harbinger of bad news for the city. The arrival of depression makes, indeed, unpredictable winds that, from January to March, in principle come from the west and southwest, pushing toward the ocean rather a possible radioactive cloud.
If things got worse still in the plant in Fukushima, a distance of only 100 km, and the winds, yet highly variable, poorly navigated the rain will then exacerbate the risk of contamination to its one million inhabitants. For many, these assumptions reinforce the feeling of having escaped the tsunami than to find himself caught in a trap from which they can not extricate themselves.
"How can I hope to escape the radioactive cloud if we do not give me more than ten gallons of gasoline after hours of waiting?", A motorist was annoyed, caught in one of these lines of cars that can reach a mile long. The city is thus divided into two, reflecting its new geography between a coastline ravaged by the tsunami and a town center with all buildings still stand, like ghosts.
In Sendai, there are those who mourn their dead, or still looking. And others who s'angoissent, and dream of leaving. These people not only seek fuel for their cars, the only way to go fast, since there are no trains. They also swell the queues of people trying their luck with the bus companies to embark on a long journey to Tokyo via the neighboring prefectures.
Employees who were on a business trip to Sendai, where the earthquake took place, all hoping for a place in one of these buses. Those who were stranded at the railway station have been grouped in the nearest school. They are still more than a hundred sleeping on the floor of the premises icy - gas heating no longer works in the city - waiting for a chance to go home.
"Local authorities have been able to do from their families, but we, ordinary citizens, we are doomed to remain stuck there," complains Aochi. Three times a day in the courtyard of the school, also formed a long queue, the more frequent the streets of Sendai: one for food, and water is lacking so much.
It never ceases to wrap around blocks, and the calm of the participants completed to give the city the look of polished end of the world. The resort's buildings, set back from the sea, set the scene at first unchanged. But behind their facades intact, nothing works as before. The heating and hot water are memories, interiors devastated by the earthquake.
Almost all hotels of the city were closed, not even deemed fit to accommodate survivors. The other Sendai, the coastal districts ravaged by the tsunami, is unable to keep up appearances. It is just a big chaos. In the port area, the last standing water eventually dissipate Monday. Providing access to a tangle of amazing cars, trucks, cargo and warehouse gutted.
Young, quickly adapted to the economy of survival that is set up, realized that there was an untapped resource. They come from the city by bike, jerry cans on the rack, trying to siphon the tank vehicle wrecks. With a shovel, soldiers try to make a path to what was a void. Employees of an enterprise zone business groups to walk the carcass of their former workplace, in the hope of finding the remains of one of their colleagues, who disappeared the day of the disaster.
Residential neighborhoods near the port, have a little more resilient. Protected by the railroad, their houses were not all destroyed. But their condition has forced their inhabitants, again, to take refuge in schools closest to the door invariably covered with posters designed to regain lost.
In one of them, dozens of families settled in the gym, where two small gas stoves are struggling against the cold. For days they wait. What? Zenichi, sexagenarian who settled there with several friends, said he hopes for nothing. "The government lies to us all as responsible nuclear power.
I do not think even our newspapers, which tell the truth than the current date. With this disaster, I realized that they could not trust anyone "he said. Without hope of escaping the trap of Sendai Zenichi ensures that only awaits the daily distributions of food, largely from convoys sent from all over Japan.
The vast majority of trucks pass by a single track, the highway reserved for emergency between Tokyo and Sendai. This channel allows supply to maintain, somehow, the city on a drip. But what if the nuclear disaster in progress at the Fukushima plant, located near the highway were to be cut? The trap would be permanently closed Sendai its inhabitants.
Japan, the culture of disaster in Japan, announced a nuclear catastrophe Nuclear accident: a dramatic cape was taken to Austin but mobilized Fukushima, NHK television serves as a "lifeline" to the Japanese Electricity: energy savings and imports Russian envisaged After resisting, the Tokyo Stock Exchange suffered a crash Article published in the edition of 16.03.11
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