{"id":18318,"date":"2011-03-24T22:15:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T02:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=18318"},"modified":"2011-03-24T22:15:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T02:15:55","slug":"ibaraki-update-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/24\/ibaraki-update-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibaraki Update: Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

From a <\/strong> blog by Jason Kelly<\/strong> (not a JET).\u00a0 FYI, Ibaraki Prefecture was also hit hard by the earthquake but has not gotten as much attention as the harder hit areas of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima.<\/em><\/p>\n

Into Ibaraki<\/a><\/h1>\n
March 23, 2011<\/abbr><\/div>\n

We received an emergency request for socks<\/strong><\/a> from North Ibaraki City, hit hard by the earthquake and tsunami, and located only 73 km (45 mi) south of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants. We faced two questions: Was it safe to travel closer to the radiation, and could we justify using precious gasoline for such a long trip?<\/p>\n

On the first question, we checked radiation levels for the area and found them to be eight times higher than near our base in Sano \u2014<\/p>\n

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From a blog by Jason Kelly (not a JET).\u00a0 FYI, Ibaraki Prefecture was also hit hard by the earthquake but has not gotten as much attention as the harder hit areas of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima. Into Ibaraki March 23, 2011 We received an emergency request for socks from North Ibaraki City, hit hard by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t