Typhoon No.9

The other day, typhoon No.9 directly hit Tokyo(We numbered each typhoon in sequence, rather than naming like U.S. So, this typhoon was actually the ninth which was born in East Asia). As civil servants, when flood or other kinds of disaster would be expected to happen, we stay at our office overnight on vigil to make sure that we could react as soon as possible in case of emergency.

I was picked as a member of night vigil this time, so I was dispatched to one of local community centre, which could become local evacuation centre if people in neighbourhood were forced to flee in case of flood. During terrible storm and occasional strong rain, I patrolled around close area with flash light and map, checking whether fallen trees clog traffic on the streets or there is power-line that is cut off.

Fortunately, typhoon No.9 didn't cause any flood nor accident at all in Nakano-ku. After night vigil was over and we were dismissed, I got lipton tea in the morning, which was the best tea I have drunken for ages. And, unbelievably, we changed clothes and went back to each section, and started working normally as if nothing had happened at all. They didn't give us swapping day-off and expected us to work usually. The principle being, Get day-off if you are tired. It sucks!!!! So, I took half-day off, and went to Voice room...