４万人超なお避難指示＝仮堤防の工事進む－台風１９号

　台風１９号による記録的な大雨では、１８日までに長野など３県の約４万５０００人に避難指示が続いた。東北や関東甲信などの一部地域では同日から１９日にかけて大雨になる見込み。堤防が決壊したり、地盤が緩んだりしている所があり、気象庁は洪水警報・注意報の発表基準を引き下げ、住民に注意を呼び掛ける。
　総務省消防庁によると、避難指示が出ているのは１８日午前５時現在で、宮城と栃木、長野各県の３市２町。被害が大きかった千曲川が流れる長野県が最も多く、約３万１０００人が対象となっている。
　国土交通省によると、１８日までに千曲川（長野市）と久慈川（茨城県常陸大宮市）、阿武隈川（福島県須賀川市）で決壊した堤防が仮復旧。越辺川（埼玉県東松山市）などでも工事が進んでおり、国が管理する７河川１２カ所の決壊場所では、週明けに全て仮堤防が完成する見通しだ。
　１８日までに１２都県で７７人の死亡が確認された。このほか６県で１０人の安否が分かっておらず、警察や消防による捜索が続いている。（2019/10/18-08:44）

The Japan Meteorological Agency is calling on residents in the parts of the country ravaged by powerful Typhoon Hagibis to take extra caution against floods as heavy rains are expected to strike the area again on Friday and Saturday.
   The 19th typhoon of the season tore through central and eastern Japan last weekend, loosening the ground and causing levee breaches. The agency has lowered the standards for issuing flood warnings and advisories to deal with the vulnerability.
   The warning comes as some 45,000 residents in the prefectures of Miyagi, Tochigi and Nagano are still under evacuation orders as of Friday morning, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. Nagano in central Japan had the largest number of such people, at 31,000, due to significant damages along the Chikuma River.
   According to the land ministry, provisional levees have been set up on breached sections along the Chikuma River in the city of Nagano, along the Kuji River in Hitachiomiya, Ibaraki Prefecture in eastern Japan and along the Abukuma River in Sukagawa, Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan.
   Construction on levees are under way in other locations such as along the Oppe River in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Provisional reconstructions of all 12 breached levees along seven nationally managed rivers are expected to be completed by the beginning of next week.