どれほどの時間がたったのだろう。空はみるみる真っ黒になり、雨が降ってきた。
しかも、雲が溶けだしたかのような黒い雨。
その雨は、またたく間に激しさを増す。縦穴の防空壕はみるみる黒い水が溜まり、
黒い雨はあっという間に腰辺りまで迫った。
まるで黒い沼に入っているかのようで、恐怖と冷たさに震えた。
3人で身を寄せ合っていることが、唯一の救いだった。
その時、近所の傷痍軍人さんが探しに来てくれた。
「ここへいてはいけない！」
一人ずつ引っ張り上げてくれ、坂を上ったところにある、横穴の防空壕へと急いだ。

I didn’t know how much time had passed. The sky turned black before my eyes and it began to rain. Not the usual rain, but a black rain. It was pouring more and more heavily and the pit which was our shel-ter filled with black water like a swimming pool. It filled very quickly. This black water scared us even more.
Very soon, the ominous dark water was up to our waist, it was like we were soaking in the bath of black water. We stayed close together trembling with fear and shivering from the cold.
“It’s very dangerous here!” a disabled soldier from our neighborhood said after finding us. He helped us out of the pit. He directed us to another shelter built into the top of the hill. We rushed to it.