03-13-2011, 02:03 PM
Hokkaido got off very lightly. The earthquake was only felt as a 3 here so no damage from that. The tsunami did hit coastal areas but took awhile to reach here so there was plenty of warning and last I heard only 1 death in Hakodate. Seems an old guy slipped and maybe knocked himself out when around 40cm of water came into his house. He drowned. Other than some relatively minor damage in a few coastal towns we've not had any issues with power outages or anything really having to shut down. Life going on pretty much as normal. We've been very fortunate.
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