I have watched TV, internet, and listened to radio about the post-earthquake situation since yesterday. It was because the electricity will stop. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has announced that there is going to be planned blackout in Kanto region. They also announced that most of the areas in central Tokyo will not be affected by this blackout. However, surrounding areas, such as Chiba, Saitama, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma will be influenced. They had announced the schedule of the blackout, but they have corrected the schedule several times. Today, the planned blackout of group 1 that was supposed to be conducted from 6:30 has been changed not to do it. I heard that there was confusion about this, because it was too quick for most people to know about the information of the blackout. TEPCO announced about the blackout last night (around 9 o’clock) and it was not early enough for many people.
As long as I know, there was an accident at nuclear facilities in Fukushima prefecture. This accident has caused the huge panic of society since this week so that most TV programs have been only taking about this. TEPCO has said the planed blackout will be conducted by 5 groups and we need to know which area we live in. My hometown is Yachiyo, Chiba and it is group 1 and 2. I am not sure why the city is categorized for two groups, but TEPCO said that no city would be selected for more than 1 group so that it is going to be one of the groups.
I have been studying for Eiken today. I have done some problems on the reading section. In that section, there are passages to be read and questions to be chosen. Science, internet, and social science are the contents of passages. There are some words that need to be looked up in the passages to understand. I would need to read the descriptions of answers carefully to understand the problems that I could not get points.