Twitter Stream with updates from Japan

[RAIST]

Manage to scrape up a few tweets about things in general. Business trying to resume operations, but with some difficulties:

Many buses are running between Sendai & Yamagata. From YMGT, other buses are running to Tokyo, Niigata, etc

Asahi: JR Freight Co increasing no. of gas/kerosene tankcar runs to Iwate from 3/23. Equiv to 20% normal delivery.

Amid, crisis Tokyo's Shangri-La hotel closes "temporarily": http://on.wsj.com/fDE3ne (Perhaps it will reopen at less than $863 a night...)

It is now possible to drive from Tokyo to Sendai, albeit slowly. Exprsswy from Urawa to Yaita. From there, take Highway 4.

Handy table showing all blockout groups for tomorrow.
http://translate.google.com/translat...n.yahoo.co.jp/

(unfortunately, the graphic isn't translated, but they have it broken down in charts that did)

Skimming over the schedule, I see Chiba Prefect which is close to SE's building, and I saw Hamura city mentioned--so sections of SE's prefect may be going down, but possibly not their particular ward.

A LOT of chatter went on about the gray and white smoke they saw coming out of #2 and #3 last night...of course, TEPCO dind't say much in their press release... imagine that:

Press Release (Mar 21,2011)
Smoke from the Southeast Side of the Rooftop of the Unit 3 Building in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

At around 3:55 PM on March 21st, an employee of TEPCO confirmed light
gray smoke arising from the southeast side of the rooftop of the Unit
3 building, and reported the situation to a fire station at 4:21 PM.

The parameters of reactor pressure vessel and reactor containment
vessel of Unit 3, and monitored environmental data around the Nuclear
Power Station remains at the same level. However, employees working
around Unit 3 evacuated to a safe location.
It is observed the smoke has been decreasing.

TEPCO continues to take all measures to restore the safety and security
of the site and are monitoring the site's immediate surroundings.