Japan - Fallout

[Moresco]

What's going on? I'm scared!

It's nothing, Dual...it's just the end of the world.  Go back to sleep.

[SpacePirateCaine]

So, I'm still alive anyway. Don't know about the rest of the world, but it's business as usual here in the Tokyo/Saitama area. Aside from the odd tongue-in-cheek remark "You've been sniffling all afternoon - allergies getting to you?" "Probably radiation", that sort of thing, it's being widely ignored. Now that the power levels are more stable, though companies by and large are attempting to conserve energy (Most escalators are off, fewer lights are turned on in stores and other major buildings, etc.), it's as though not much has changed at all.

We still get tremors somewhat regularly. A seven-something last night, but you just become kind of desensitized to it. I was honestly more concerned about the fight with a High Dragon I was in the middle of in Dragon Age II. Once I'd confirmed that nothing else breakable was in a position to fly off a shelf, I just sat right back down and rode it out.

Even in the less-affected metropolitan areas, water is still something of a hot item. Most convenience stores have a "One bottle per customer per day" policy, as many people are still a bit leery about drinking tap water, with some reports of traces of radioactive iodine found in the water system. Still, I shower pretty much daily, brush my teeth with it, even drink some, though my girlfriend has forbade me from it by and large. Raining today, which I walked through mostly without an umbrella on my way home from work (On a Saturday, FML - working off the days that I took off after the "event".).

But despite the fact that a huge natural disaster happened, and a lot of people died, and there have been some shitty consequences, life goes on as it tends to.

And Ouxxey - It's foo-koo-SHEE-ma. And the F is very light - almost an H sound: don't bite your lip to make the F, just blow through your lips. But I won't get into a Japanese lesson in this particular thread.