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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsParts of Japan - one month's rain in 12 hours yesterday
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/26/japan-flooding-death-toll-rises-to-eight-as-heavy-rains-hit-east-of-country<snip>.
The death toll from torrential rains that caused flooding and mudslides in eastern Japan rose to 10, with a further four missing, public broadcaster NHK reported, just two weeks after the region was hit hard by a powerful typhoon.
Landslides ripped through waterlogged areas in Chiba, east of Tokyo, and Fukushima northeast of the capital, which were inundated by their third rainstorms in six weeks. In some places, a months worth of rain unleashed by a low pressure system fell in half a day.
Evacuation orders and advisories were issued along much of the northern corridor already hit by two typhoons since last month. The city of Ushiku in Chiba received 283.5 mm (11 inches) of rain over 12 hours.
Although the storm had moved away from Japan by Saturday, hundreds of residents were still in evacuation centres and some rail and bus services remained suspended.
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Remember now there is no climate change
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Parts of Japan - one month's rain in 12 hours yesterday (Original Post)
malaise
Oct 2019
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. Climate change may be one kind of felt metaphor, that really has impact
on cultural/political change.
malaise
(269,091 posts)2. Interesting interpretation
and a good point. When the Soviet Union collapsed I told a very close friend that everything we assumed would change.
soryang
(3,299 posts)3. Not a word about the tons of radioactive debris lying about Fukishima
....prefecture or what happened to it.
malaise
(269,091 posts)4. They downplayed that from day one
Sickening