We are expected to get more severe rain. Accordingly, new evacuation notices have been issued and many calls for evacuation that were issued yesterday are still in effect, though some have also been rescinded. To access information in English out about the situation in your area, use your Chrome browser to go to
http://crisis.yahoo.co.jp/evacuation/43/
then right-click for English. On other browsers you will only have access to Japanese.
– Kirk
P.S. Since I have posted quite a lot today, and since I’m not linking to a major news article, I suspect that the Google algorithm will not show this post to many people. So, if you have a friend or loved one in an area that you think might be vulnerable, please “share” this with them. I hope that we have seen the worst of this but more bad stuff could happen.