Under construction

 

 

 

About 900 people are still in a shelter.

And about 200 temporary houses or more will be built. 

People who can't get these houses will live in apartments and so on. 

5 houses where 20 families can live are being built at the north of the Okada primary school now.

It is said they will be completed by the end of September. 

Some finished cleaning the houses near my house and are rebuilding.

In the evening, I see a fewer lights in the neighborhood, and is very silent.

  Only the sound of the insects is very loud.

Words of a bulletin board 46

 

 

 While I was absent from walking for about 1 month and a half, a word of a bulletin board was renewed.

"Mind yourself for the thing which is

right in front of you."

If your mind isn't here and now, you can't do well.

Wild boar again

Around 3 p.m. on August 1 (from the kitchen of my house)

 

   Wild boars are seen again recently.

This one was a little smaller than I saw before.

On August 14. around 2 p. m. our relative who came to visit our grave said "There is a wild boar in the garden", so my husband clapped his hand.

It disappeared into the rice field.

And a newspaper said the other day, a wild boar appeared near the Okada elementary which is a shelter now.

My husband also encountered it at a rice field yesterday. 

Please go back to the hill !

Two weeks after the flood

Car of Japan Self-Defense Forces in a parking lot of the pachinko parlor

 

volunteers

Water wagon of Japan Self-Defense Forces

 

 Please read this in Japanese.
Saturday, July 21.

Barn was flooded

The barn was in an awful mess.

 

Rice was soggy.

 Please read this in Japanese.
Sunday, July 8.

A great flood

 10:13
Water of a flume was overflowing.

 

 10:57
Water was running into reice paddies.

 

10:13
Many cars were taken to  a little higher place.

 

 

11:19
A car in front of my barn is going to be flooded.

 

 17:53
I saw a scenery like a sea.

 

 Please read this in Japanese.
 Saturday, July 7.

Explosion at an aluminum factory

  Blue seats are put on the roof of each house in an aluminum factory vicinity.

 

 Aluminum factory

 

 

Friday, July 6.

 We heard a very very big sound around 11:30 on July 6.

What happened ?

It  was an explosion at an aluminum factory about 2 kilometers away.

The sound was like an earthquake, thunder, or the tone of the jet.

It was raining heavily and the special heavy rain warning had been announced.

Aluminum factory was flooded by the heavy rain and the water caused chemical reaction.

Glass on the hallway of my house was also broken by a blast.

 This was the beginning of the catastrophe.

Recovery from a breakdown of the internet

July 7  around 18:30

 

A breakdown of the internet occurred by the Western Japan torrential downpour on July 7.

After about a month and a half, au light managed to recover from the breakdown today. 

The picture above was taken from my house.

If the surface of the water had elevated about 10 centimeters or so, my house would have been flooded.