FUKUI –
Record rainfall prompted 19 rivers to overflow throughout Fukui Prefecture, flooding roads and houses, triggering landslides and briefly forcing authorities to situation the highest-level heavy rain emergency warning from early Sunday morning.
A stationary entrance over the Hokuriku area introduced intense rain to Fukui, the place Level 5 heavy rain emergency warnings had been issued for Fukui City, Ono and Katsuyama at 4:30 a.m. on August 30.
The emergency warnings had been lifted at 11:40 a.m., however rainfall totals from the beginning of the downpour on the night time of August 28 by means of 4 p.m. on August 30 reached 376.5 millimeters in Katsuyama, 343.5 millimeters in Miyama in Fukui City and 341 millimeters in Harue, Sakai.
The totals exceeded the typical rainfall for all the month of August in a number of areas.
One resident described the rain as “pounding down,” including, “We had been saying how terrible the rain was in Toyama and Ishikawa, but then it suddenly became our problem too.”
Another resident mentioned, “I’ve lived here for 15 years and have never seen this much rain. We’ve taken measures around the doors, and I just hope the damage does not get any worse.”
Floodwaters lined sections of National Route 8 in Fukui City close to a bridge over the Arakawa River, leaving a number of vans and different automobiles surrounded by water deep sufficient to fully submerge their tires.
A complete of 19 rivers overflowed throughout Fukui Prefecture because the report rainfall prompted widespread street flooding, inundated houses and triggered landslides.
In Sakai, roads had been flooded deeply sufficient to cowl car tires, whereas water overflowing from roadside drainage channels inundated an intersection in Katsuyama.
Fukui Airport was additionally affected, with areas surrounding the runway flooded and the airport rendered unusable.
Two folks had been injured within the prefecture. In Sakai, a lady in her 30s fell right into a roadside drainage ditch hidden by floodwater and suffered accidents together with a damaged leg.
Although the heaviest rain has handed, authorities are urging residents within the Reihoku area of Fukui Prefecture to stay on excessive alert for landslides by means of early Sunday night time.
Source: TBS