Media Timeout

I'm constantly checking my phone all day and the TV at work is always on. I feel like I'm on information overload. Obviously I want to stay on top of the news because the situation could get really bad, really fast but I feel so on the edge that a false alarm about the radiation almost made me lose it at work today. It's really frustrating because I can't understand what's going on in the news and the English news that I look up on my phone is not as fast to update or isn't very relevant for people living in Japan. (i.e. when the power outages will occur, which train lines are running, which prefectures are being affected by the radiation...)

People are definitely on edge now. We had our graduation ceremony today (which I will have to write about in another post) and teachers had little yellow "disaster" flags for people to follow to safe areas in case an earthquake hit. For decorations they had covered 4 out of the 6 doors leading out of the gym with these sheets. You could still duck under them if you needed to but it definitely would have been bad in case they needed to be used. They still made sure to mark where the doors were and pointed them out to everybody along with where to go in case we had another earthquake though. They were supposed to turn off the power in the middle of the ceremony the luckily they held off the power outages for another day.

It didn't rain today but it's still on the forecast for the next couple days. It's also supposed to get cooler which is really bad for the people up north who still don't have power. I didn't go to the grocery store today but  I saw that McDonald's was only serving a limited menu and more restaurants were closed than normal. It said on facebook that the government had assured people that the food supply wasn't running out in the Tokyo area so hopefully that stops people from panic buying. We're trying to finish all the food we have piled up anyways because we're leaving soon but it's really hard to do that when you know you don't have enough to last 2 weeks.

So anyway, things still seem kind of dicey with the reactor but I figure if something really bad happens I'll know about it. But I get more worked up about things if I'm constantly monitoring things so I'm putting myself on a news media timeout. And now I just need to stay busy...and hopefully get a good nights sleep.