主题：【讨论】日本核灾难最新更新 -- 井底望天

It is more serious in the shelters and hospitals. The mayor of Minamisouma said that the lorries refused to come into the area with supplies and I think that he is right. The drivers and logistics operators are not reaching the area because they think it is "contaminated".

Initially the evacuation was on a voluntary basis. We were not ordered to make our own way out of the city.

Instead representatives from the local authority drove around the district urging residents to stay inside their homes, warning those who did decide to evacuate that it would be at their own risk.

The reason I don't evacuate is that we lack petrol but actually my mother would not want to leave here even if we could. Of course I don't want to leave either but I don't want to die.

The people who managed to leave the area have to have tests to get a certificate of radiation exposure, to confirm they are safe.

Often, privately funded shelters do not accept people without the certificate. On the other hand, public shelters often cannot accept all the refugees because of their limited capacity.

I find out information on the arrival of relief goods via Twitter.

But for people without access to Twitter they miss out on information such as when to start queuing at the petrol station because information about when the petrol station is going to open and when they are going to get their deliveries is disseminated via Twitter.

Rice, bread and emergency rice (onigiri), drinking water, petrol and kerosene are all rationed.

But we don't get enough daily necessities like toilet rolls which we would normally get from shops.

And although we get fuel rations they are usually not enough for us and even if we knew some garages were open we need petrol to get there and negotiate the queues. But many people don't have enough petrol for this.

I don't have confidence in the government's actions especially because I am in the area that has been ambiguously designated the "Indoor Evacuation Zone" ( although apparently they are now encouraging voluntary evacuations from here too).

Indoor evacuation makes no sense because you cannot stay at home all the time. It makes me wonder if this is a ploy by the government to avoid responsibility if we all suffer health issues as a result of radiation exposure - I suppose they could argue that they had informed us not to go out. One just has to laugh...

My thoughts on the government haven't changed. In fact, it has become stronger. Two weeks have passed since the earthquake struck but nothing has improved; the timing of press conferences, their reports on the status of the nuclear power plant, etc.

It angers me that that they are putting much effort into covering up and making deliberately ambiguous statements. We now know that some of the reports were at least a day old at the time of disclosure. Even today, they reported the finding of plutonium at a press conference that was held in the middle of the night.

However, they have been releasing reports that don't give us accurate pictures and at such times that no one would be awake to see them.

One cannot help but think they are deliberately trying to tell very little to people like us who live in the area.