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[G03-P01] Residents' Actions during Typhoon Kathleen
Keywords:Typhoon Kathleen, Katsushika Ward, flood, Breaking the Levee, Tone River
Typhoon Kathleen, which originated in the Mariana Islands on September 11, 1947, shortly after the end of the war, stimulated a frontal line that had been stagnant across Honshu and brought heavy rainfall. The rain continued until midnight of September 15, when the typhoon left off the Boso Peninsula to the northeast.
In the early morning of September 16, the levee in Higashi-mura, Kita Saitama-gun (at that time) on the right bank of the Tone River broke, and the floodwaters moved southward to breach the Oba River levee (Sakura-tsutsumi) in Mizumoto-Koai Shinmachi, Katsushika-ku, on the border between Saitama Prefecture and Tokyo, causing Tokyo to be flooded from early morning on September 17. In the afternoon of September 18, the floodwaters reached Katsushika Ward, then the right bank of the Naka River, and finally reached Edogawa and Adachi Wards.
Many records of Kathleen's typhoon experience by residents are kept in the libraries in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, and are extremely valuable materials. In this study, we will represent these residents' testimonial records on maps in chronological order, compare them with previously published inundation maps, etc., and verify how the residents acted.
In the early morning of September 16, the levee in Higashi-mura, Kita Saitama-gun (at that time) on the right bank of the Tone River broke, and the floodwaters moved southward to breach the Oba River levee (Sakura-tsutsumi) in Mizumoto-Koai Shinmachi, Katsushika-ku, on the border between Saitama Prefecture and Tokyo, causing Tokyo to be flooded from early morning on September 17. In the afternoon of September 18, the floodwaters reached Katsushika Ward, then the right bank of the Naka River, and finally reached Edogawa and Adachi Wards.
Many records of Kathleen's typhoon experience by residents are kept in the libraries in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, and are extremely valuable materials. In this study, we will represent these residents' testimonial records on maps in chronological order, compare them with previously published inundation maps, etc., and verify how the residents acted.