Kirk here with post number 5 in terms of “reach” (number of views) this year. Actually, I just deleted it by mistake so I’m posting this without an image. The original image was a map of evacuation notices but I don’t want to disturb anyone on Christmas with such an image. By the way, though I accidentally erased the post, I have a record of the text so I’ll append that to the end of this post.
The post about evacuation warnings that I erased got 3,036 views and was published on September 18th. This year we had our share (or a bit more than our share?) of typhoon and heavy rain warnings. If I hadn’t been posting information to this page, I probably wouldn’t have given the ambiguities of the “everyone must evacuate” notices a second thought. But, the care and feeding of this venue forced me to look into it. This post was from September 18th. Just for the record, I’ll append the links and dates of other posts on the topic of “Do you REALLY need to evacuate?”
Bottomline: “Must evacuate” messages cannot be taken at face value; you need to evaluate them in the context of the particular area you live in, the building type, and where you live in that building.
September 5 (1) https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid02JqQAHi2tNSo6HLLBqTqepgJb6VwTtGU9S6BKgBjLa4FzNQ6roYKMCUfxT1SVuhMNl
September 5 (2) https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid02R41eJvAhr7f7Scb3wEpVHneidQm4H9SedXqfUZuo85GjiEv4jAJRTFi9kK2zgCtCl
September 5 (3) https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid0Dj7aD6LV8sDuUiv5x1XNQbwJU6FwV7qT1fJtHK2U7afh19E2vKt3okcWsiVHctudl
September 17 (1) https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid02PpUj8wBDvkdyf1nHwEuJwo2cXSQm32NUa4LXk769itLBx7X89x84hdECfnXieFu8l
September 17 (2) https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid0zYRYLnnPGAHVQkw5KMMyQTvfGBkFYQYpq1x4WavTwcRdYiPc56cNLXDsRecHP92el
September 18 (1) https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid02UirwxgWMQBfskBjawjG9UxqkUWkwq4MzvR3QcHMzvYzzok2ZyK3uHw6aQQ8ZZzGtl
September 18 (2) https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid02t2Srz8kEk97HiciKuYaj9PHkUNJ4UB1H7oPGj5uvrhWszj82mwHcXfmjoSozbpx5l
September 19 https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid0m16QbQV3Meut22BHGS39ttEqGHFtg7FPwaiFxmwtHcfjT6mZBVvp7N6dAucpJiHKl
September 22 https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid02Wy9deTuUwpJX2LFuYyNZK6ETzSvKXh3yykp3Sa56bip8fzNG7gXeBrYhTaBWrREBl
P.S. Here’s the text of the post, from September 18th, that I erased by mistake:
Kirk again. I didn’t plan to post a lot today but I found another resource that I think is useful. Here’s the URL: https://portal.bousai.pref.kumamoto.jp/ What you see will be in Japanese but you can select a Google translate option at the top of the page. In the screenshot I’ve appended to this image, the purple areas are level 4 (“Everyone evacuates from hazardous places”) and red areas are level 3 (“The elderly and others evacuate from hazardous places”). You can also use the map to locate shelters (evacuation sites; hinanjo) near you. For more information on the 5-level evacuation warnings, see the following: https://www.facebook.com/Kumamotoi/posts/pfbid0DdVLZRKzVF3HXGFrxqDnHV63KYwbF327noiad5QeVScyJvVwS2vegbZVGdJXCiB3l