At present, the entire Kyushu area is suffering from record-breaking downpours.

I was getting anxious too, so I tried the "stackable hazard map" that was introduced on TV the other day.

Luckily, our house was not in the flood, mudslide or tsunami damage area.

That doesn't mean, though, that I can't escape the threat of earthquake-induced collapses, fires, and other disasters.

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My parents were victims of Typhoon Ise Bay, which submerged their house.

Since then, the Ebata family motto has been "Build up our residence higher than the watering hole".

My current home is also on higher ground.

I just measured the place with a GPS logger and Google Earth and found it to be at 72 meters above sea level.

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I was looking at the "stackable hazard map" and I noticed that there was something about a band of red areas that spread out in a band.

When I zoomed in a bit, I was surprised to see that almost all of the area around the Tama River is a flood warning area.

I checked the entire Tokyo area and found that the basins of the Iruma River, Arakawa River, and Edogawa River are almost completely red.

Much of Tokyo's 23 wards are painted in red, and the size of that red area is not even comparable to Kyushu.

It's no wonder that this "flood of rivers," which has been endless for over 10 million years, has created the vast Kanto Plain.

Not only the Kanto plains, but all the major cities in Japan that have plains where the population is concentrated are all designated as first-class flood designated areas.

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Just by visually observing the area of the hazard map,

"If a heavy rain like this one hits the Tokyo metropolitan area, the damage area will be lightly over 100 times"

I could make an unforeseen prediction.

In the first place, I am afraid that

- Once the war begins, within a few minutes after the war begins, multiple missiles (those with warheads) will fall

- A large earthquake leaves victims in the order of millions of people

- a viral infection spreads in the shortest time,

into the metropolitan area.

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However, I have no intention to say "What you should do", "what I should do"

Now I'm standing in a place where the chances of "substantially distressing", "intolerable suffering" and "inhuman death" are much higher than in other places. -

I thought it would be better to be prepared for that.