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Omaha Steve

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Sat Jul 4, 2020, 05:18 PM Jul 2020

Heavy rain floods southern Japan; over a dozen presumed dead

Source: AP

By MARI YAMAGUCHI

TOKYO (AP) — Heavy rain in southern Japan triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen people presumed dead, about 10 missing and dozens stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued, officials said.

More than 75,000 residents in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima were urged to evacuate following pounding rains overnight. The evacuation was not mandatory and it was not known how many actually fled.

“I smelled mud, and the whole area was vibrating with river water. I’ve never experienced anything like this,” a man in a shelter in Yatsushiro city, in western Kumamoto, told NHK TV. He said he fled early fearing a disaster.

NHK footage showed large areas of Hitoyoshi town in Kumamoto inundated in muddy waters that gushed out from the Kuma River. Many cars were submerged up to their windows.



Areas are inundated in muddy waters that gushed out from the Kuma River in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto prefecture, southwestern Japan, Saturday, July 4, 2020. Heavy rain triggered flooding and mudslides on Saturday, leaving more than a dozen missing and others stranded on rooftops waiting to be rescued. More than 75,000 residents in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima were asked to evacuate following pounding rains overnight. (Kyodo News via AP)


Read more: https://apnews.com/a86c4d5c27d78cfdd96fe74dedf60998

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Heavy rain floods southern Japan; over a dozen presumed dead (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jul 2020 OP
Poop folks n/t AmericanVictimized Jul 2020 #1
Welcome to DU. I'm curious about your name. What's up? mahina Jul 2020 #3
Why,...we hardly know each other sir AmericanVictimized Jul 2020 #4
Oh my God. Poor beautiful (((Japan))) mahina Jul 2020 #2
Wow! Thanks for sharing. I traveled a lot in Kyushu where this is taking place. I can't Nitram Jul 2020 #5

mahina

(17,506 posts)
2. Oh my God. Poor beautiful (((Japan)))
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 04:02 AM
Jul 2020

Prayers up. What help can we send?

Hoping recovery and safety for them. Aloha no Japan. Gambatte.

Nitram

(22,671 posts)
5. Wow! Thanks for sharing. I traveled a lot in Kyushu where this is taking place. I can't
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 11:29 AM
Jul 2020

imagine dealing with this on top of the pandemic.

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