2018 Volume 33 Pages 207-214
We investigated the response of welfare facilities in Asakura City to severe heavy rainfall in the northem Kyushu, on 5 July 2017. A questionnaire about evacuation action and information utilization shows that no facilities evacuated according to "evacuation preparation and elderly peoples start evacuation" issued by the mayor, although two facilities subsequently evacuated judging from water level of surrounding river and weather information. It seems that the information such as the inundation or the landslide around the facilities is more important for most of welfare facilities to evacuate by comparing with official evacuation information. It is also found that about a half of facilities evacuated several day-care-type users in their facilities because roads were flooded and closed on the way home.
