Typhoon approaching Dobutsu distributed to residents even in Tokyo Oct 10 18:09
In response to the approaching typhoon, in Tokyo Edogawa Ward, the ward prepares sandbags and distributes them to residents to prevent inundation of houses.
In Edogawa Ward, there have been flood damage on low land and other places during heavy rains, so we have prepared sandbags at 42 locations in the ward and distributed them to the residents.
Of these, at the ward office, nearby people visited by bicycle and truck one after another and brought back the sandbag.
In addition, in order to prevent water from entering from the vicinity of the store shutters, restaurants were using measures such as sandbags and blue sheets and wooden boards.
A 59-year-old woman who operates a restaurant said, “We are preparing now because it will flood the house if it rains. It is a concern because there was damage in Chiba, but I hope it will not have a big impact. I was talking. "
A 66-year-old man said, “I came to pick up a sandbag because of a typhoon. I will put it in front of my house so as not to be flooded.”
Tatsuya Sakaki, Director of the Civil Engineering Department, Edogawa Ward, called, “Recently, there are many cases where a lot of rain falls in a short period of time.