Realizing I'm Slow to Get Information

I was sitting in my apartment unit today and a friend of mine in the same neighbourhood messaged me to ask where the local evacuation point was. She was worried about earthquakes and what to do if it hit.

That exchange made me realize some things: I have no idea where to go if a disaster hits, and I am quite out of the loop in terms of news and advisories.

That corner in the cover picture is where I spend a lot of time when I'm at home, which is not that much time, honestly. Really, the laptop and the smartphone are the only connections I have to what is happening in the outside world. I think a lot of people are the same, but I don't bother with Twitter (sorry, X) and I'm barely on Instagram or other social media. My primary news source is literally some guy on YouTube talking about his thoughts on current events and my secondary source is the articles here on City-Cost. But what about emergency news here in my local area or the country?

I realized that I only learned about the government warning of a large earthquake in the Nankai Trough through coworkers. I thought about getting a television set, but I knew that I wouldn't enjoy any of the Japanese programming (and I really don't want to have to pay for NHK). I can also only read Japanese at a first-grade level, so newspapers are definitely out of the question.

Since I was a bit late on getting the advisory, when I went out to buy some bottled water and canned food just in case, I found that my local supermarkets had run out of stock. So, I realize that television might be the best way to keep up with emergency advisories.

How do you get your news?