Fortunately (or unfortunately), I'm not near anything that has been designated a hazard zone. I did go and visit the site at Toya - it was slightly surreal to see buildings and cars half-covered in hardened lava.
Although I've been here a year and a half, I still haven't gotten used to the earthquakes.
I am also still amazed me that, in winter, they use thermal energy to heat the hilly roads and melt the ice. Sounds good, in theory, but they fail to have a method to get rid of all the melted water at the bottom of the hills, resulting in much traffic craziness.
I wish people here would use thermal energy to heat their houses - it is such a cheap and effective form of energy. Unfortunately, I haven't encountered much central heating, nor insulation so maybe a thermally heated home is out of the picture. (Houses in Hokkaido tend to be built like they are on Honshu where it is generally warm and humidity is a problem.)
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Date: 2003-01-21 10:18 pm (UTC)Although I've been here a year and a half, I still haven't gotten used to the earthquakes.
I am also still amazed me that, in winter, they use thermal energy to heat the hilly roads and melt the ice. Sounds good, in theory, but they fail to have a method to get rid of all the melted water at the bottom of the hills, resulting in much traffic craziness.
I wish people here would use thermal energy to heat their houses - it is such a cheap and effective form of energy. Unfortunately, I haven't encountered much central heating, nor insulation so maybe a thermally heated home is out of the picture. (Houses in Hokkaido tend to be built like they are on Honshu where it is generally warm and humidity is a problem.)