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Houses with blue sheets on their broken roofs. I never imagined that it would still be a year ago.
Typhoon 15, which struck Chiba prefecture last September, damaged more than 81,000 homes. When I visited the disaster-stricken city for the first time in a long time, I saw people who were still living in unrepaired houses with different thoughts, and who decided to destroy the house and leave the city. (Chiba Broadcasting Station Reporter Kazuyuki Ogaki)
The victim said, “You won’t talk about it on TV.”
I entered the area affected by Typhoon No. 15 in the southern part of Chiba prefecture the day after the damage. Houses without tiles that you can see every time you drive or walk through the city. I was surprised that the damage had spread throughout the entire Chiba and Boso peninsula.
Although I feel sorry and sorry, there are a few words that left a lasting impression on me when I interviewed the victims. It is a word that the landlady murmured with a resigned face in a house that oozes rainwater.
“The flood did not wash my house and I can live if I want to.
It won’t be a hot topic on TV like this. “
However, it will be difficult to visit the site for a while due to the emergency declaration due to the spread of the new corona virus.
In a phone interview, I heard that the restoration was affected, but in August I was able to visit the heavily damaged city of Sonan in Chiba prefecture.
Even after a year, the blue sheet …
“There is still a house with blue sheets”
What I saw was a serious situation.
Even a year after the typhoon damage, many houses were still affected by the typhoon, and the roofs and walls were still covered with sheeting.
A year of surviving the rain and the wind with a sheet
“The second floor is already like this.”
The heavily collapsed wall has an exposed skeleton, barely covered with a sheet, but hanging to the ceiling. The site that was damaged in September last year was left unrepaired.
Mr. Funada spoke about the process that led to this point.
With the help of the Self-Defense Forces and volunteers, I asked them to put a sheet on the roof and I managed to survive the rain and wind and lived on the first floor. It has been a year since I wanted to repair it, but I realized that I could not fix it because I had no money.
“I can’t live in this house” He decided to leave the city
However, I couldn’t get enough of it because it was a house that my late mother had a hard time building. After her father died, she worked as a nurse and borrowed money to build a house.
Mr. Funada
“Since it is a house built by my mother, when I think of her, I feel like I don’t want to leave.”
However, Mr. Funada decided to leave the house after this year.
“That is why I am forced to move.”
Repairs do not proceed and are gradually damaged …
Many people have suffered even worse in the past year.
The houses were separated from the main building and about 80% of the roof tiles blew off and most of the glass in the windows broke. It was certified “half destroyed” and I immediately had a contractor put up a blue sheet, but most of it fell off due to the typhoon a month after I returned.
The leaks continued, the ceiling, which had nothing to do immediately after the disaster, hung a lot and mold spread across the ceiling.
Amiyo
“I think it wouldn’t have happened if we had dealt with it a little earlier.”
The repair cost is approximately 3.6 million yen The house cannot be repaired
I finally found a supplier who could give me an estimate, but based on the estimate I received in August, the roof and shutters repair alone cost almost 3.6 million yen.
The damage has worsened over the past year and repair costs have risen accordingly.
The income of the fishing boat shops in the family business is unstable and there is no room for savings.
In the end, I decided to dismantle the detachment, repair the roof of the main building and the shutters to the minimum necessary, and live with my family.
In Sawnan Town, even after a year, only 36% of the houses that want to be repaired have been completed.
Meanwhile, the deterioration of the house will continue to progress.
In some areas where one fifth was dismantled
The landscape of the district has completely changed since the beginning of the damage.
A vacant lot that stands out in points. Many of the destroyed houses had been demolished. Of the 120 houses, 25 were dismantled, representing approximately one fifth. I visited the home of the person I spoke to earlier, but he was gone.
A woman in her 60s who lives in a house with a blue sheet learned that there was a fraudulent case in which the repair fee was cheated, and even the request for repairs was scary.
60 year old woman
“I don’t know where to go with my elderly mother even after dismantling her.
I am embarrassed that repairs are delayed and I hesitate to speak to people. “
After a year, I felt like the people who couldn’t even ask for help were lost before I knew it.
The day we finally leave town
Since you will be entering a welfare center out of town and living a community life, you can only bring your personal belongings.
You can’t bring your mother’s remains.
Mr. Funada
“I’m alone.
I can’t say anything, I’m alone “
Mr. Funada’s house will be dismantled soon.
In Shonan-cho, a third of the houses that have been damaged more than “half destroyed” are inevitably dismantled.
“I’m worried they’ll forget me” Looking for volunteers
A site where three people are placing a sheet on the roof of a building that is almost 100 years old. It is these volunteers who support Imamachi.
On this day, I was trying to stop the damage from worsening by replacing the damaged blue sheet with a very durable sheet.
Owner man
“Thank you for taking care of me many times.”
However, due to the influence of the new corona virus, it is difficult to ask for support from outside the city, and there are currently only about 10 volunteers, including locals.
Mr. Shibuya
“I am afraid that small towns like Sawnan Town will be forgotten as disasters strike across the country.
But the disaster continues. “
“It is important not to break the connection”
Through trial and error, a group of volunteers has started a foot bath initiative on how to support those left behind from rebuilding.
We ask people to put their feet in the hot water and relax while consulting with the victims. There was an old woman who was coughing, so when they took me to my house, the inside of the house was full of mold.
Mr sasao
“Since the number of residents is decreasing, I would like to see efforts to create regional connections. There are many requests from the government, but I think it is important to maintain these connections first.”
What can I do now
This situation was something that worried many people right after the typhoon.
And that is now the reality.
Disaster experts also say lessons learned from Typhoon 15 damage need to be applied to support victims in the future.
Emeritus Professor Yoshii
“The prefectural governments should enter into an agreement in advance to create a mechanism that allows contractors to be dispatched from abroad immediately. In addition, a disaster in which the roof breaks and the damage worsens day by day, No We envision a national support system. If there is a request from the victims, we must re-examine the situation of the damages and provide appropriate public support. “
“The disaster continues”
— One year is not a turning point. The disaster continues.
This is my feeling now.
With this in mind, I will continue to cover it.
Kazuyuki ogaki
She joined the station in 2017 after working as a newspaper reporter.
Since the start of the Typhoon No. 15 disaster, we have been interviewing the site.
