Japan is told to be a natural disaster-rich country, but my hometown has been exceptionally free from big disasters until now. People don't mind so much the weather alarm if issued by the meteorological agency, but I was really surprised with the continuing torrential rain these couple of days. The agency had warned us about the massive rain which comes only once or less in a century, but I didn't take it seriously.
The heavy rain started on July 5th. I was in my office on the night of July 6th and was to be on duty until the evening of the 7th, but my boss advised me to leave earlier as several pieces of news about landslides near my office came in. Several routes to my home were closed one after another, and the last one is shown below. I was barely able to reach home on this route, but about a few hours after I passed, this route was also closed due to the imminent danger of landslides.
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