It had rained till noon. I stayed at home today,too.

  We have had no fine day during the "Golden Week". Was it really the golden week?  In the first half of the week, heavy rain and strong winds hit the western half of the Japanese archipegalo, and in the last half, we are having bad weather in the eastern and northern parts of Japan. In the mountains in Nagano prefecture, seven climbers, most of whom were experienced climbers, were found killed by snow storm. In Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures, a big, horrible tornado attacked towns and hundreds of houses and buildings was reported to have been destroyed and a boy was killed and many others were injured. Terrible!