More intense rain is overwhelming flood defenses and reaching places outside predicted risk zones, leaving residents to confront unexpected dangers.
Matsudo, Chiba Pref. – When Shuji Nishizawa and his wife bought their semi-basement apartment in 2003, the tiled garden terrace was the main draw. On Aug. 13, it became the floodwater’s way in. Now, pointing to muddy lines that run across the walls 1.8 meters above the floor of his apartment, Nishizawa, 60, explains how the water rapidly rose during the torrential downpour that struck his neighborhood that evening.
Nishizawa, a self-employed web designer, was in the common area of Sanctus Shinmatsudo, a 10-story apartment complex in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, when his wife rushed in to tell him that rainwater had begun gushing down the steps from ground level and pooling on their terrace.
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