Blogging Broad: ichigoichielove
January 27, 2011:
Kirishima’s Turn to Shine 霧島山負けねぞう！
This is a different topic from what I’d originally planned, but this (more timely) post is part of the Show Me Japan meme over at Budget Trouble. このポストはBudget TroubleのShow Me Japan参加です～
何回目桜島のポストを書いたけど、またひとつか、ふたつかを書くつもりです。
その前に、霧島山はなんか嫉妬そうです。
昨日から、都城市は火山灰で覆われています。っていうか、もっと火山灰土っぽいだね。
As some of you know, I’ve harped on about Sakurajima quite a few times already. I have at least one more post on that topic before I’m totally through as well.
Turns out the much closer Kirishima refuses to be outdone and commenced covering my town in ash all last evening, late into the night. It’s still active, but there doesn’t seem to be any fresh ash dumps on the go (at least right now).
To be honest, I had no idea what was going on until around 2.20am last night when my doors and windows started shaking. At first I thought I’d left a window open and there was a draft (by the way, one of my pet peeves is the sound of trembling/shaking doors and windows; it irritates me to no end) so I wandered around the apartment trying to find the source. There was none. Odd. Opened a window, no strong wind outside. Slightly confused, but too tired to care, I got out my earphones and listened to some the GazettE, which sadly didn’t drown out the sound well enough. It was about this point I felt the trembling. “Ohhhhh! An earthquake!” I thought, and satisfied that I’d found a reasonable explanation for the annoying door/windows spasms, I rolled over and tried to get back to sleep.
実は、昨日全然気づかなかった。
夜中に起きた。
窓とドアも振った。
その音大嫌いので、なんか起こった。
でも風がなかった。
「おかしい」と思ったけど、またについた。
でも今回 家が揺れた。
「あ！地震か」と思った。また寝た。
Except I couldn’t, because the ground kept shaking. For aaaaaages. I started to get annoyed again, but fell asleep at some point.
でも家はずっと揺れたので、眠らなかった。
あのむかつくな音のせいだから。
Still completely unaware of what had actually happened, I woke up to a mini Pompeii:
今朝、ポンペイ見つけた！
I don't know what the actual stats are, but I'd guess this was about 2-3cms deep. 2-3センチぐらいかも？
Grey, grey, grey. 灰色、灰色、灰色
Grey and ashy. 灰色と灰
Mmmm, ashy goodness. 灰～
And off I went to work, not a care in the world! 仕事に行くよ～
Grubby as. 汚いそう
Glad I waited with getting my car washed. よかったね、先日に車を洗わなかった～
Should be brown, not grey! 茶色は普通・・・
Yup, more grey. また灰色。
(Note that I set off for work as usual; it didn’t even cross my mind that had the situation been worse there’d be evacuation procedures. (It wasn’t until the office called me to check that I was okay and give advice on what to do that I began to clue in that it at least looked worse on the news than it was in reality.) It was just exciting and a bit of a nuisance. I’m either very easygoing, or very dense. I’m not even sure myself which is more accurate.)
Then I took some video footage on the way home. It’s not so exciting, but you can kind of see…well… how grey it is. (Although to be fair it’s usually pretty grey anyway, because of all the concrete. ^^;)
ビデオも撮ったけど、まー、あまり面白くないね。
全部灰色で。
About an hour ago (5.30pmish) I felt some more trembling, but haven’t looked outside.
For more info on Kirishima’s eruption (or interruption as I keep wanting to type), you can find a video of the lava bombs here and a live video feed of the volcano here.
As for me, my only concern is for poor Miyazaki prefecture that’s already having a tough time (last year foot and mouth disease and just recently bird flu) – the amount of ash that’s already covered the area will probably affect vegetable and fruit crops. Hurrah for even more expensive veggies.
でもね。
可愛そう、宮崎。
また困ったね。
Be strong Miyazaki, you can get through this!!
頑張ろう、宮崎！
As for me, I’m quite happy sitting at home watching NicoNicoDouga videos online, but would appreciate being able to open my window without turning into an ashwoman sometime soon.
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