Rescue, relief and restoration...

the yomiuri shimbunTOKYO, 12 MARCH: About 350 schoolchildren and other citizens whose homes were destroyed or in danger of collapse were at Minami-Kesennuma primary school. Many of the children said they used school curtains as blankets to ward off the cold on the second floor of the school. The first floor was underwater. School principal Mitsuo Nakai said: We cant contact the city government because cell phones dont work, so were communicating with people outside our school through local fire brigade members. An estimated 10,000 residents of the city were evacuated to 17 shelters set up in the city, Nakai cited fire brigade members as saying. Fumie Komatsu, 61, a beautician of Minamicho, Kesennuma, took shelter in Kesennuma Civic Hall. When I …