{"id":2075,"date":"2012-07-23T16:27:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T16:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2012-07-23T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T16:27:16","slug":"mother-nature-is-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/mother-nature-is-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Nature is Angry"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Landslide2\"<\/a>

You know what? Let's use a different road to get there.<\/p><\/div>\n

As I mentioned last month, the \u6885\u96e8 (\u3064\u3086\/rainy season) runs from late \uff15\u6708 (\u3054\u304c\u3064\/May) to mid-late \uff17\u6708 (\u3057\u3061\u304c\u3064\/July), depending on the area that you live in. As scheduled, the \u96e8 (\u3042\u3081\/rain) hit during that time, but \u4eca\u5e74 (\u3053\u3068\u3057\/this year) there was a lot more than average.<\/p>\n

In fact, many areas received more \u96e8 in a few days than they usually get for the MONTH. For example, my area in \u5357\u4e5d\u5dde (\u307f\u306a\u307f\u304d\u3085\u3046\u3057\u3085\u3046\/South Kyushu), \u9e7f\u5150\u5cf6 (\u304b\u3054\u3057\u307e\/Kagoshima), received a whole month’s worth of \u96e8 in about 5 days in \uff16\u6708 (\u308d\u304f\u304c\u3064\/June). Since \uff16\u6708 is *already* in the middle of \u6885\u96e8, it’s hard to believe you can get so much more \u96e8 in a few days (about 700mm I believe), but that’s how much we got in 5 days of \u5927\u96e8 (\u304a\u304a\u3042\u3081\/heavy rain). Every morning we were greeted by announcements on the news telling us to watch out for \u6d2a\u6c34 (\u3053\u3046\u305a\u3044\/floods) and \u571f\u7802\u5d29\u308c (\u3069\u3057\u3083\u304f\u305a\u308c\/landslides) due to the \u5927\u96e8.<\/p>\n

\"Landslide\"<\/a>

I could have sworn there was a bridge somewhere around here...<\/p><\/div>\n

We thought it was finished when \uff17\u6708 came around. Two days of sun in a row and we let our guard down, thinking the worst was over. My wife and I decided to take a little two day drive out of the city a week ago, to the region of \u963f\u8607 (\u3042\u305d\/Aso), in \u718a\u672c\u770c (\u304f\u307e\u3082\u3068\u3051\u3093\/Kumamoto Prefecture), but Mother Nature let me know I was being too optimistic. Another round of \u5927\u96e8 came and parts of \u718a\u672c\u770c (especially \u963f\u8607), \u5927\u5206\u770c (\u304a\u304a\u3044\u305f\u3051\u3093\/Oita Prefecture), \u4f50\u8cc0\u770c (\u3055\u304c\u3051\u3093\/Saga Prefecture) and \u798f\u5ca1\u770c (\u3075\u304f\u304a\u304b\u3051\u3093\/Fukuoka Prefecture) had dozens of\u00a0\u6d2a\u6c34\u00a0and literally hundreds of \u571f\u7802\u5d29\u308c \u00a0(from tiny to large) which caused almost 30 deaths. Thankfully, we missed the worst of it, but the evidence was all around us, as evidenced by the pictures I included.<\/p>\n

The \u65e5\u672c\u4eba (\u306b\u307b\u3093\u3058\u3093\/Japanese people) are resilient though, and as soon as the rain slowed down, whole neighborhoods were out helping each other clean up. The community spirit in Japan is really unmatched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"Landslide2\"

As I mentioned last month, the \u6885\u96e8 (\u3064\u3086\/rainy season) runs from late \uff15\u6708 (\u3054\u304c\u3064\/May) to mid-late \uff17\u6708 (\u3057\u3061\u304c\u3064\/July), depending on the area that you live in. As scheduled, the \u96e8 (\u3042\u3081\/rain) hit during that time, but \u4eca\u5e74 (\u3053\u3068\u3057\/this year) there was a lot more than average. In fact, many areas received more \u96e8 in a…<\/p>\n

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