“This is no match for New Year’s． It’s a different level． “It’s all messed up．” Muddy waters and landslides keep Ishikawa residents sleepless at night．
*Mainichi Shimbun, 11:25, Monday, September 23rd The heavy rains that hit the Noto Peninsula on the 21st and 22nd caused landslides on many major roads, including National Route 249, the main transportation artery of the Oku-Noto region of Ishikawa Prefecture, and roads remain impassable. With power outages and communication disruptions, many communities are finding themselves in the same situation as when the Noto Peninsula earthquake occurred this past New Year. According to a prefecture summary released on the evening of the 22nd, more than 100 locations in the Oku-Noto region remain isolated. [Takumi Takenaka, Hirotaka Abe, Yoko Kunimoto, Akihiro Fukao] Residents of Najimi district in the eastern part of Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, who were among the first to evacuate en masse after the Noto Peninsula earthquake on New Year’s Day, reported the situation to us by phone and social media. Hiroyuki Tsuchitani (57) from the Minamishimi district said, “It’s not like New Year’s time. It’s a different level. It’s just a mess,” he lamented. This summer, Tsuchitani was finally able to move into a wooden tenement-style temporary housing unit built by the prefecture in the low-lying land in the center of the district. As secretary general of the Gojinjo Taiko Traditional Performing Arts Preservation Society, he has also toured the country giving performances in an effort to encourage revival. The rain on the morning of the 21st was the heaviest I had ever experienced. The small river nearby, Minamishimi River, rapidly rose in water, submerging the foundations of the temporary housing. “dangerous. Let’s go to higher ground.” We called out to each other and headed towards the former site of the elementary school on the hill. There’s a power outage, no water, and no phone service. It was a sleepless night, just like New Year’s Day. Read more↓ “Worse than the New Year’s earthquake” – Muddy waters and landslides keep residents sleepless at night in Noto.
The Noto region has fully recovered from the damage caused by the New Year’s Day earthquake, but because of this rain, they have to start from scratch again. It was only because of Prime Minister Kishida that they were able to fully recover so far, but will the new Prime Minister be able to restore it properly? >>1.
>>8 I volunteered in Wajima three times, but there was no Self-Defense Force presence! It’s true, the work was always like, “Are you sure you want to let amateurs do this?”
This is the fate of the foolish people who supported the traitorous LDP. If the Democratic Party had continued in power, they would have responded more sympathetically, like they did during the Great East Japan Earthquake.
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