Raining it's pouring!

It just started pouring rain and thundering. A few seconds ago I hear the three beeps "dong dong dong!" that the Japanese people use to indicate an announcement.

Then the announcer said something in Japanese. Here in Japan trucks come through the neighborhood all the time with loudspeakers and announce such mundane things as "large garbage pickup." However this announcement was the loudest I had ever heard.

Then the announcer began to speak English, which usually never happens. Flood warning for the Yokohama-Yokosuka area due to torrential rain. Wow! We have tornado sirens in the US but usually no city wide very loud spoken announcement.

I was very impressed with their warning system and how loud it was. I don't think we have anything to worry about. Landslide maybe as we live on a hill...but so far it's just been rain and thunder.

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