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明朝 台風が来ます

The typhoon comes in tomorrow morning

これから 教会の祈り会で

so I'm headed off to the coffee shop, we're going to have a prayer meeting there

みんなの安全と 台風の勢力が低下するように祈ります

pray for God's safety over everyone here in Japan,

台風が来る前に 帰ります

pray for the storm just to dissipate and to lose strength.

肝心です

and then get back (home) before it comes in.

すごい！台風前でも ラーメンは行列です

That's important.

着きました

It's amazing: there's a typhoon coming and people are still in line for ramen.

教会です

Here we go.

今日は家ごもりだね

This is us.

くつろいでるね

So we're just chillin' inside today, right guys?

ゴミ収集はお休みです

Just chillin.'

なんで？

No garbage today.

なんで？！

No garbage.

今日外に出たい人は いないはずだよ

Why?

雨がお金や アイスだったらいいのに！

Why?!

浸水の危険に備えて

I'm pretty sure that no one wants to be out in that.

大事な機器を 2階に運びます

I wish it could be raining money, coins and ice cream.

楽器を2階に運びました

There's a potential risk for flooding here,

みんなもね

and it's pretty serious, so I'm going to move my gear upstairs to the second floor.

ジョシュアがまだだね

So all my studio is upstairs on the second floor...

ほぼ全てのドアに 雨戸がついてます

...and all the people are on the second floor...

すごいです

Well almost. Joshua is downstairs chillin' right now.

これを下げると

Almost all of our doors here have these storm protectors.

窓を保護できます

Which is fantastic.

素晴らしいです

You can put those down...

ジェットコースターだよ！

...and it protects the windows...

大きなコースター？

and it protects everything else. Very nice.

どんな感じかな？

We are doing a roller coaster.

ベルト閉めないと

A roller coaster? A big ride?

安全の為にね

Yea! OK let's see what it looks like!

僕の番だよ！

Wait, I've got to buckle Joshua in.

川が見えます

Oh that's a good idea. Buckle him in for safety.

流れが速いです

It's my turn, daddy! Here it goes!

河川敷はまだ無事です

Se, no... (ready, set)

まだ人が居ます 散歩でしょうか？

You can definitely see the river.

レベル4警報です

and it is moving fast.

レベル5は 洪水が既に起きてる状態です

Fortunately there is still quite a bit of room in between the river and us.

ラインで連絡を取り合ってます

And plenty of people out! Like going for a little stroll, why not?

河川敷に水が入ってきました

Flood risk, level 4.

川からの水か… 雨が貯まってるのか…

The only thing higher is the flood occurrence itself.

雨はまだ降る予報です

Ruth has been working the LINE messages like nobody's business (like crazy).

みんな良い子だね

Look, the field over there is starting to flood.

自転車したかった

I don't know if that's river or just so much rain,

そうだよね

Probably from just so much rain, huh guys?

運動会だったのに！

And we still have a lot of rain to come!

台風で中止になったの

And these guys have been so good today, right?

運動会の予定が 狂っちゃったね

I wish I could play on my bike outside.

"愛するみんな 台風から守られるように"

I know you want to play on your bike outside.

"浸水しませんように イエス様の御名で祈っています"

Yea! Even today is supposed to be my undoukai (sports day)

そうだね

but we can't because there's a storm.

水はあるけどね

Right! The storm really messed up your undoukai, didn't it?

浸水してないよ！

Hi girls! I'm praying for you during the typhoon...

水あるもん！

I declare in Jesus' name that your house will not get water in it.

飲み水

Yes!

なんだ

There's already water in it.

変わったジョークね！

I mean... There's no water in it!

災害は台風だけじゃなかったね

There is! Where?

地震！

Water, so we can drink.

台風と地震が 同時に起きるなんて

Aww

誰かいるわ！

(laughs)

濡れちゃうわ

That is your humor, not mine!

閉めないと すごい風だわ

So, it wasn't enough that we had a typhoon, what's happening now?

8時だね

An earthquake!

台風の中心が来る頃だわ

An earthquake? With a typhoon? That's like Japan's two big things all in one.

河川敷が浸水したわ

Oh! There's someone out there!

完全に浸水しています

Oh my, I'm getting wet!

凄い勢力です

Oh my goodness! We gotta close this. It's intense.

1時間半経ちました 水位は下がってませんが…

It's 8:00...

溢れてもいません

Oh yea, it's starting to hit here.

安定してます

The worst is about to come...

良いニュースです

The garden that's in the middle is completely gone.

58年日本に住んで初めての台風だと コメントをもらいました

The garden is underwater over there.

山場は越えましたが 大量の水が上流から来ています

That's just crazy.

この地域には脅威です

It's been an hour and half and the river level hasn't gone — hasn't come up anymore.

やっと寝れそうです

So that's good.

長い一日でした

It looks like it's holding steady.

神様が守ってくれましたが

Which is good news for us.

被害にあわれた皆さんの為に 祈っています

One of our followers on Life in Japan said that in 58 years of living in Japan he has never ever seen a storm like this.

洪水になった地域もあります

And the worst of it is passed now, but we still have all of this water to come downstream.

被害が少ないよう 祈ります

which could really affect the parts around here.

日曜日です！

For me now, I think it's finally safe to go to bed.

教会の日です！

It's been a really long day, but God's protection was on us and Noborito.

神様が守ってくれたことに 感謝します

I just pray for all the other people, who knows what the damage is like,

そして被害にあった人の為に 心から祈ります

I hear (of) many other places where flooding happened

準備はいいね？ 練習はじめるよ！

so I hope it's not bad.

被害にあった 全ての人のことを思っています

(Singing in Japanese)

何かが違えば 私も被害にあったかもしれません

It's Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.

私達に出来ることがあれば ぜひコメント下さい

Which means we have church today.

私や教会のチームで お手伝い出来るかもしれません

Boy, what a great day to go and thank the Lord for his protection on all of us last night,

いかがでしたか？

and also to pray and cry out for more mercy as we all recover from this typhoon.

"いいね！"と"チャンネル登録"を お願いします

Alright! We're getting ready, practicing, right everybody?

次の動画でお会いしましょう！

Whew!!

Our thoughts and our prayers go out to everyone who was affected by this typhoon.

We weren't affected, but that could have easily been a different story.

So if there's anything we can do to help, please let us know in the comments

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