Typhoon - crossing guard in a mackintosh

  Day after day, it has been raining in the past week. This morning I had to stand at a crossing near my house as a voluntary crossing guard. It was raining heavily and very windy, so I had to go wearing  a mackintosh. School kids were far fewer than usual, because many parents drove their kids.
  The damage done by the typhoon No.12 was far heavier than expected. The number of the people who were killed or missing is over 100, mainly in Wakayama and Nara prefectures. Rivers flooded in many places. Roads were cut in many places by landslides and floods, and towns and villages in the mountanous places have been isolated. A lot of farmlands and residential areas have been submerged. What a disaster!