IF ONLY they had the good sense to frantically search for more batteries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that should have been priority 1
if they had kept the thing on batteries until they could get a generator in, this would have been hailed as a success story of epic proportions (surviving BOTH an giant earthquake AND a a giant Tsunami on the same day)
They declined foreign offers to fly in back up generators and drove through damaged streets to a retail outlet but didn’t have funds to purchase enough batteries or back up generators!