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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Hey guys.
Hello.
How's it going?
It's a hot day today.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Hot summer is coming back.
I know.
Still okay though.
Like compared to the worst days of Tokyo, I wouldsay.
Don't you think?
Yeah.
Pretty hot.
Yes.
But.
Right.
Better than India.
50 degrees.
I mean, we've been getting a lot of like, squall.
Yes.
Like, during the evening, during the daytime, itwas like super sunny.
Yeah.
But like all of a sudden at night, it's like.
Yeah.
Pouring down.
And it's kind of like.
It's like wow.
Yeah.
What happened?
I was back.
My parents' house were at Chiba.
And they had like crazy amount of rain.
Chiba.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That was on the news.
Yeah.
It's got the name.
Oh yeah.
For that.
For that disaster.
Oh.
It's a neighbor.
Chiba.
I guess.
And yeah, it was pretty heavy.
My house was safe.
Okay.
My house area was safe.
But if I go like a few minutes by car, there arestill some.
There was just.
I think there are still some cars that.
Like stranded cars.
Yeah.
They can't move.
They're just stuck in the water, I guess.
That's been washed away by the water flow.
Not like washed out, but you got like the kind oflake thing in the middle of the road.
And the cars couldn't move to anywhere.
Okay.
It's just broken.
And yeah, that happened.
Oh.
And I could see like many cars.
Not many, many cars, but some cars like justrandomly stopping in the middle of the road.
Wow.
Okay.
And yeah.
Traffic can't go through.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you just have to pass through like that.
And there are so many cars like that.
It says more than like some thousands cars in thewhole Chiba prefecture.
Okay.
So there are no rescues coming to those cars.
Okay.
They don't have a decent amount of people torescue people.
So it's like.
Okay.
I see.
I see.
Yeah.
So my house area was relatively like safer.
Okay.
Like a.
Fortunately.
Yeah, fortunately.
But still I saw some people like yukashitashinsui, yukawa shinsui.
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They're like putting all their tatamis out fromtheir house, putting out some, you know,
tables and things to, you know.
Deal with the flood.
Yeah.
So, yeah, it's like I didn't.
Pretty big disaster.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Honestly, this is like the first time you've hadlike, you know, a close family go through
that.
Yeah.
Because Chiba, they don't have like, we don't havethose things.
Yeah.
It's very rare that we have those like, we don'thave like heavy rain.
We don't have like, you know, those ones.
Didn't they say that it was the first time Chibawent through the typhoon?
Yeah, they're coming.
Typhoons are coming every year.
But yeah.
But it's rare to have like a severe heavy rainthat floods.
Yeah.
Okay.
I didn't know that we had like ups and downs onthe road.
I didn't even know what's the map.
You know, those like hazard map and everything.
I didn't even care about those things.
Okay.
Because you didn't have any.
Yeah, we didn't have any.
So we didn't have to worry about those things.
But this time, like, it's the first time for methat I like finally realized that my
house was relatively old.
We were like in a good location.
And oh, my, let's say like station was like a verylow place.
And it was like, I didn't even thought about that.
Right, right.
So, yeah, it was crazy.
New discovery.
New discovery.
Yeah.
And there are still people that like struggling.
There was a flood.
And like, some people lost their cars, theirhouse, maybe.
And some people died from the flood.
So, yeah, I was very lucky.
Do we have a number on how many casualties we haveso far?
Don't know.
Don't know?
Yeah.
The news isn't covering as much anymore right now,right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's not like 10, 100, things like that.
I don't think so.
But some.
Yeah.
We've been getting a lot of, you know, the Yeomolthat exploded.
Kumamoto.
Yeah.
Earthquake.
Right, right.
Getting a lot of disasters, really.
Yeah, we had earthquake at Kumamoto.
And then like we had flood in Chiba.
Yeah.
We're getting too many of those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Japan is a, you know, dangerous country in termsof natural disasters.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I hope everybody's safe.
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Yeah.
That's it.
Hope everybody's doing well.
Honestly.
Honestly.
Hope everybody thrives.
Yeah.
Survives.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Absolutely, man.
Yeah.
It's like the first time for me to like, I didn'texperience that rain itself.
But, you know, like it's like a, it's the firsttime that I finally like, you know, half
experienced those things.
Natural disasters that are on the news.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, everybody like, oh, you have to beprepared for those things.
You have to buy this.
You have to be careful about those things andthings like that.
Yeah.
And we hear those things a lot.
And we don't, you know.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
I was one of those.
Like, I didn't think that comes to me in this reallife.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't realize that.
Right.
I'm going to prepare.
Yeah.
Prepare.
You have to.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, because of all these natural disasters, Ialso had a moment to like reflect on like
what I should prepare for, like the go bag andeverything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And like, you know, every time I review these gobags, it gets me wondering.
Like, so on the internet, there's all theseinformation on like what you should have in
your bag.
Right.
But like, doesn't it differ?
For example, like very countryside, wooden,structured.
Yeah.
You know, Ikkenya versus like Toshin, TekkotsuMansion.
I feel like it's very different from what youneed.
Like, there's a lower risk of collapsing.
Yeah.
So like, how much do I need a whistle?
Right.
Like, do I need a whistle in my bag?
Yeah.
Maybe I should go more on like water supplies, gasstuff, you know, portable toilets, you
know, if water runs out.
Right.
Things of that nature.
Because like, yeah, maybe I should go less onsurvival, more on like, yeah, those daily
infrastructure needs is what I thought.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's impossible to prepare everything.
Yeah.
So you have to, like, you have to simulate.
Right.
What will happen?
What if this happens?
What if that happens?
Yeah.
I guess so.
You have to.
You have to think about it.
And you have to adjust.
Right.
But the thing is, there's not much information onlike, if you're this type of lifestyle,
you should need this.
It doesn't, they don't, the government doesn'tsay.
It just gives you like a generic one size fits allkind of go bag.
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So like, maybe it's not that important to optimizefor your lifestyle is like a second
like, I don't know.
I'm still debating which one I should go for.
Yeah.
But I think we have to like optimize something tofit your area, your life, your housing,
everything.
Maybe.
I'm on that side.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
But yeah.
So if you're okay, if you're safe from everything,you have to prepare.
Now it's, you have the time.
So you should do it right now.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And yeah, I hope everybody's safe.
Everybody's healthy, doing good.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
All right.
Sending the best good luck from us.
All right.
Thanks for sending guys.
Thank you.
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