Some Nishinomiya evacuation shelters for heavy rain and typhoons have changed

Some evacuation shelters in Nishinomiya City for heavy rain and typhoons have been changed.

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Evacuation Shelters Being Changed

Some evacuation shelters have been changed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Here is the list of shelters being changed:

• Namaze Civic Hall→→Namaze Elementary School
• Shiose Public Hall→→Shiose Junior High School
• Yamaguchi Public Hall→→Yamaguchi Elementary School
• Naruo Chuo Center→→Naruo Elementary School
• Education and Culture Center→→Hamawaki Elementary School
• Kawaragi Public Hall→→Kawarabayashi Elementary School
• Koto Center→→Danjou Nishi Elementary School
• Koshikiiwa Public Hall→→Kita-Shukugawa Elementary School

↓ List of shelters that will not open

• Uegahara Public Hall
• Uegahara Civic Hall
• Kugarakuen Civic Hall
• Kamikoshien Public Hall
• Minami-Koshien Public Hall
• Naka Civic Hall

For details, please check “Evacuation Shelters During Heavy Rain and Typhoons with COVID-19 Prevention Measures in Mind | Nishinomiya City Website.”

Things You Should Prepare for an Evacuation Shelter

The city hall page listed items they would like people to bring when evacuating to a shelter.

Links to Hazard Maps

For anyone who has misplaced their hazard maps, here are the links.

Please take this chance to check the routes to evacuation shelters again.

• Disaster Prevention Map(mirror link)
• Tsunami Hazard Map(mirror link)
• [Northern Area] Flood and Landslide Hazard Map(mirror link)
• [Southern Area] Flood and Landslide Hazard Map(mirror link)

* A mirror link is a backup link in case the original page cannot be accessed due to heavy traffic. The same files are stored on the Nishitsu server.

Finally

Evacuation shelters are places where the “three Cs” can easily occur, so this time they have probably been changed from smaller public halls and civic halls, where crowding and close contact are more likely, to elementary schools. Please let people you know know about this, so they do not show up at a shelter only to find it is not open.