Date of Fukushima Date Large scale inundation damage draws earth and sand clearing starts October 14th 11:34
In Date City, Fukushima Prefecture, where the Abukuma River was flooded by the heavy rain of Typhoon No. 19, water was drawn by the night of the 13th, and residents were forced to clean up the earth and sand.
In Yanagawa-cho, Date City, Fukushima Prefecture, flood damage occurred in the area surrounded by the Abukuma River, the tributary Hirose River, and the Shiono River.
As a result of drainage work, the water remaining on the houses and roads was drawn on the night of the 13th, and the residents who returned from the evacuation shelters were forced to clean up the earth and sand that flowed into the house on the morning of the 14th. It was.
Among these, a 68-year-old man with a house about 100 meters from the Hirose River noticed that the river water was overflowing with sounds heard from outside the house around 1 am on the 13th. I ran away and spent time in the shelter.
When the man returned home in the morning of the 14th, there was a trace of water inundated to a height of about 2 meters near the ceiling on the first floor, and the furniture had fallen in mud with the flowing earth and sand.
The man said, “Water came in no time. I was imagining, but when I looked at the situation of my house, it was still a shock. It was a blackout and there was no place to buy food. It was tough. "