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It rained heavily in the southern part of the night. In particular, in Gangjin and Haenam, Jeollanam-do, torrential rains of more than 400 mm fell, flooding places and killing one person.
Reporter Jeong Kyung-won of KBC reports.
[Reporter] The
floor of the restaurant was covered with mud.
I try to sweep it with a broom, but I can't see the end.
Inside, basins, buckets, and various seasoning containers that were floating in the rain are tangled up in a mess.
[Yoon Seon-hee / Flooding victim: I got a car from the other side and called the next door, because it was flooded. And call 119.]
Over two days, it rained more than 400mm, causing rain damage in Gangjin and Haenam.
The flooding of houses is particularly serious.
Rainwater poured up to ankle-height in the back room, and residents stayed up all night to scoop up water.
[Kim Jung-ah / Flooding victim: I woke up from sleep, so I threw it away and the water ran over here. I don't know what to do.]
[Lee Won-sik / Flooding victim: I couldn't even go inside the back, and I even kicked the bed in the front of the room.] As the
heavy rain continued to pour, the rainwater rose to the height of an adult's knee in the front yard of the house.
In Haenam, an elderly man who was evacuating to avoid river flooding was found dead.
In Jindo, a river overflowed and 20 residents were evacuated, and the road was closed as stones poured down.
The paddy fields submerged in the rain became a huge river, and field crops collapsed helplessly.
The Jeollanam-do Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters tentatively counted damage to facilities such as farmland and road slopes so far, but the scale is expected to increase significantly as the sun rises and the damage investigation begins in earnest.