Japan rain: Nearly two million residents told to seek shelter

BBC ^ | August 15, 2021 | BBC

[Stravinsky]

Highest-level rain warnings have been issued in a number of prefectures, including Fukuoka and Hiroshima.

One woman has died and her husband and daughter are missing after a landslide destroyed two homes in Nagasaki prefecture.

More than 150 troops, police and firefighters have been sent to help with rescue operations in the area.

"They are carefully searching for the missing residents, while watching out for further mudslides as the heavy rain continues," a local official told the AFP news agency.

The west of the country is worst affected but heavy downpours are expected across the country in coming days.

In Saga prefecture, a hospital evacuated patients to its upper floors on Saturday after the nearby Rokkaku river overflowed and flooded the building, Kyodo News agency reported, citing local authorities. In total, non-compulsory evacuation warnings are now in place for more than 1.8 million people across seven prefectures, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK.

[lefty-lie-spy]

It’s been coming down a lot over the last few days and almost constant since 7:00pm last night, which is 20 hours. I went down to check the river and creek around 3:00am last night, and it’s nothing special. A few years back my son and I almost got caught it a flash flood in the creek and had to climb the walls of gulley to get away from the water because it was rising a meter a minute. In 2019 the town flooded due to a typhoon. This is a massive amount in Tokyo, but nothing too exciting. Other places like Hiroshima are getting it much worse, but it’s not devastating.

[A_Former_Democrat]

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