August not stand the prospect of a hot spring inn business resumption of inundation in Yamagata Oe-cho, heavy rain 4 days 13 hours 18 minutes

It takes 4 days for 1 week from the record heavy rain that caused great damage to Yamagata Prefecture.

In the hot spring inn that flooded Oe-cho, in the flood of Mogami, pump to draw water from sources that remain even broken now, it does not have standing prospect of sales resume.

At the well-established hot spring inn "Aterazawa Onsen Yumoto Ryokan" in the Sawazawa area of ​​Oe Town in Yamagata Prefecture, the water overflowing from the Mogami River flowed into the water, and it reached a height of 2 meters above the floor.

Sediment flowed into the guest rooms on the 1st floor, and all the dishes and pottery in the cell were covered with mud.

On Saturdays and Sundays earlier this month, I borrowed mud-covered furniture out of the prefecture with the help of a betting volunteer, but the walls and floors are still damp and there are mud in places.

Kyoko Kashiwakura, the wolf, continued to clean up for four days a week after the heavy rain.

If you more Kashiwakura's, that although the sediment that has entered the public baths were removed, because the pump to draw the hot water from the boiler and the source boil hot water is broken, now also followed by a state in which no out hot spring, prospect of business resume is not standing That is.

Ms. Kashiwakura said, “It was more than I imagined, my mind was blank at the time, and I was in a daze. I'm really thankful for the past week, thanks to the volunteers. I'm really thankful. I am doing my best just with the energy to go."