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August 6 The Amami Oshima typhoon No. 10 approaches Okinawa. Although the wind became strong and it swam also in 940 hectopascals and Amami Oshima considerably distant from maximum instantaneous wind speed Okinawa of 50m during the morning in the sea, a wave becomes high in the afternoon. However, without the leaf, it was very dangerous and, probably, was not able to swim, since it was in the leaf. August 7 Amami Oshima -- a typhoon approaches still more There is no 々 8s lever inside because of 15km/h. Although it went to sightseeing to the Oshima pongee center during the morning, the wind became strong, and since it was dangerous, food was purchased and it kept still indoors in the supermarket in the afternoon. The place at which it stayed is the bungalow of the "渡連 campsite" of the seashore end which Izaki has now. A wind becomes strong still more at 6:00 p.m. It has approached considerably. A wind blows from just beside and becomes the sound a "go." It is the terrible wind which has not been seen until now. It is dangerous in outside and does not come out to it at all. A wind stops suddenly at 8:35 p.m. It entered into the eye of a typhoon. It becomes quiet like a lie. It is uncanny at touch called after a calm comes a storm. And an about 1 hour after wind becomes strong again. The electric current has been cut off immediately. Although it restored at once, it disappeared again, and it did not restore till the next day. It already cannot but sleep. 耳栓 is carried out and it sleeps. It blows back after typhoon passage, comes out, and is an again terrible wind. A bed shakes violently at 11:43 p.m. It hung on to the handrail involuntarily. By the terrible wind, the ground shakes considerably. Underground rumbling is carrying out. It is striking rather than a rain peach is uncanny and it comes down. Although it was on the bunk bed, since it shook too much, it was fearful and got down downward. Because of a power failure, an air-conditioner also stops and the interior of a room is terrible heat. However, a window cannot be opened at all. Moreover, since it is close to the seashore, remarkable sand is flying. The bungalow was likely to fly, and it was very fearful and was not able to sleep. A bungalow shakes. At this time, the central pressure is 940 hectopascals and the maximum instantaneous wind speed of 43m. Since it became the influence like this half when it came to Honshu, it was the typhoon which can taste truly only in Okinawa and the Amami district. And it is said that it was a big typhoon for the first time in ten years according to the local man. It was said that even the local man familiar to the typhoon was fearful, and was not able to sleep. August 8 Amami Oshima A wind is not settled yet at 6:00 a.m. Although it kept away to near Tanegashima, it does not know that a driving wind will be settled. It comes to come out outside at last at 8:00. However, a step is taken quite strongly by the wind. It seems that it came out of a rainstorm within the circle at last around 9:00. In the surroundings of a bungalow, a chair is blown away, the tree of the banana of a field falls completely, between harvest, 葉っぱ of a direct papaya is completely lost and it has become only a trunk and a fruit. Most guavas broke and the fruit of a passion fruit had also fallen completely. Are born and this was the first time that there is a life and it felt that it was good actually. The truly useful feeling did not carry out. The dreadfulness of natural power was felt. Although serious damage came out centering on Hokkaido by this typhoon No. 10 and many people were also killed, undoubtedly it puts that damage hardly came out in Amami Oshima.
... Machine Translation