“Beautiful” A deep sleep makes you unaware of the flooding Evacuate by relative's phone October 18th 14:29
In the Hoho area of Nagano City, where the Chikuma River embankment broke down and suffered massive flooding, there was a man who was sleeping, unaware of the flooding, and was able to evacuate immediately by calling from his relatives.
Kazumi Ozaki (68) spent the night on the 12th of this month when the typhoon approached Nagano Prefecture, and took pills to relieve his back pain after dinner.
This medicine also made me sleepy, so Mr. Ozaki was deeply asleep on the first floor of his home and was unaware of the area mail and the disaster prevention radio that indicated that the water level of the Chikuma River rose.
It was a phone call from an aunt living in the neighborhood that saved Mr. Ozaki.
The aunt noticed that Mr. Ozaki was not in the evacuation center around 1:30 am when the river had already started flooding, so he worried and called.
Waking up there, Ozaki hurriedly left his home and reached the evacuation shelter.
Mr. Ozaki was sleeping on the first floor of his home until she was evacuated, but this flood caused her home to be 1 meter above the floor on the first floor.
Ozaki-san said, “If the call from my aunt was a little later, I may have died without noticing the flooding of the river.