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Mark,
Things don't seem to be getting better. There are 3,000 people now living in the Ojiya Municipal Gynasium, getting about 1/3 of the calories they need a day, and queuing up 20 minutes to use the lavatories. I saw aerial video of Uragara today, and the whole area looked like a river. In other areas, you could see dead koi that had been washed out of their ponds and down the driveway. The lucky ones managed to escape in the drainage ditches, and were crowded and bewildered.
The outskirts of Nagaoka may see some semblance of modern life restored soon, it's going to be a long time before electric, water, and road service are restored in Yamakoshi.
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Brian Sousa
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