Japan floods: Dozens killed in deluges and landslides

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5. Watching news now.

Old people who couldn't or didn't evacuate (didn't go because the last time an evacuation notice was given in 1995 it wasn't very bad -- I think it's mostly men who do this: There's a Levy, What Could Possibly Happen?).

My sister-in-law lives near a river in the flooding area. She said she wasn't evacuating, they'll go up to the second floor. But she lives in a house where the original part is over a hundred years old and not in one of the newer housing developments built on flood plains. I wouldn't trust any construction company to have done due diligence about landslides or flooding or earthquakes or tsunamis.