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• Shimonaka Yushi

  Just so glad that all of us are safe. Good to know that you, Hik, and Mas, are alright. Tried to get in touch with you, but couldn't.

• Shimonaka Yushi

  I'm sitting at my computer at home at 5:40 in the morning. Tremors continue every 10 or 15 minutes. It's been said that the water of this entire area is going to be cut off in 20 minutes, so we've filled up our bathtub.

• Shimonaka Yushi

  A building next to ours was in flames and fire engines were just then rushing to the scene. None of our cell phones worked; splendid, when it was the one most desired time to call our loved ones.

• Shimonaka Yushi

  After the 1st quake, we all took a dash to the 1st floor and then outside. Freezing our butts off by the sudden change of weather that seemed to turn on us from sunny to rainy; rainy to snowy, a non-religious Japanese man looked into the sky and said that God must be angry with us.

• Shimonaka Yushi

  Sirens were blaring, and a man was yelling through the speakers to run to the nearest clearing. We were huddled together. Suddenly strangers were becoming friends. Ha!

• Shimonaka Yushi

  Man, that was freaky! It was only a low 6 on the Richter scale where I was, but I was on the 2nd floor of the place I work, and when things started to shake real bad I was freaked! Hundreds of boxes and containers were falling off of shelves 5 levels up, thick dust filled the air, a wall came down, and our building was obviously cracking.