Typhoon 12 crossed Okayama and Hiroshima prefectures where heavily damaged by Western Japan torrential rain on the 29th from east to west, and also made Shikoku strong rain. "I felt the rain scared." There was a lot of victims running into the evacuation shelter as the crisp memory and restoration work three weeks ago remained tired.
In Hiroshima prefecture, evacuation instructions (urgent) and evacuation recommendations were issued in 17 out of 23 prefecture 23 towns. At Yananami Elementary School in Hiroshima-shi Aki-ku where people living in the Umewa (Umgo) complex where five people died due to heavy rain, 306 people who were three times as many as two days ago visited at 1 pm on 29th .
Aki Kuramoto (23), a nursing care worker in the same district who evacuated with four parents and the first son, worried about the house while watching the rain falling down. In torrential rain, the front of the house was like a muddy flow "sea", the entrance and the garden flooded. It seemed uneasy that "The front of the house was clean and I got back to work."
Yukiko Tanabe (70) who evacuated to the gymnasium of the tertiary junior high school in the center of the same prefecture's third prefecture (Miyoshi) city said "There is no escape place at home in the flat shop, and when I live alone, the night is uneasy and after the heavy rain the rain has become frightened ". He said she had learned to set up evacuation centers on TV and evacuated with friends.
In Okayama prefecture, eight towns and towns including Kasaoka city and Shintoshi city gave evacuation advice to a total of approximately 185,000 in the morning of the 28th from morning to 29th, and about 1100 people temporarily evacuated.
About 60 people evacuated to Makihisa, an elderly welfare center that became a shelter in Kurashiki-shi Masanori (Mabi) town, which was flooded by heavy rain. Mr. Hiroshi Yamamoto (69) was worried that the backyard would not collapse due to heavy rain, and evacuated in the morning. "I was glad that the typhoon was more quiet than I thought" and showed the expression of relief (Ando), "I want you to do away with this kind of worry for a while."
In Ehime prefecture, four city towns such as Matsuyama City and Imabari City evacuate to a total of 100,000 people. In addition to 356 evacuees of heavy rain, 722 people newly evacuated. Nomura dam (Nishi Pre-city) and Kano River dam (Ozu city) in the river (Hira) river flooded with heavy rain did not carry out emergency release like heavy rain.
"Evacuate while being bright"
Iwakuni-shi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, two people were sacrificed due to landslides saw evacuation instructions to about 30 households on the afternoon of February 29, saying that the risk of sediment-related disasters increased, evacuation recommendations to approximately 136,000 people in the rest of the city . A city representative said, "The ground contains water and I want to keep alert." Shunan City, where one of the dead people came out, also made a recommendation to some.
Kitakyushu city where two people passed away issued an evacuation recommendation mainly on the place where collapse occurred due to heavy rain. As of 6 pm, 417 people in 293 households evacuated. A woman (87) in Yazuicho, Mojiku-ku, living alone, moved to a nearby citizen center. "I am afraid of the landslide at the hill and want the typhoon to pass sooner."
Kurume-shi, Fukuoka Prefecture, which flooded on a large scale due to heavy rain, set up self-evacuation shelters in five places. A 70-year-old woman who came to a shelter in Kitano district where the damage was great was "I heard that the rain will continue even though the typhoon passed and came to be bright."
The JR lines of Kyushu were also greatly affected from the afternoon of 29th. According to JR Kyushu, the express train "Sonic" of Nichiren Line was up after 4 p.m., the descent was after 6 p.m., and almost all the trains after 9 p.m. on Nagasaki Line's express "Kamome" were canceled. On the 30th, some trains of express train "Kurishima" of Nichiren Line will be closed between Seibu Castle and Kokubu, but other plans are scheduled for normal operation.