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brooklynite

(94,597 posts) Sat Oct 12, 2019, 09:42 PM Oct 2019

Four dead, more than a dozen missing after Typhoon Hagibis drenches Tokyo

Source: Washington Post

TOKYO — High winds and record-breaking rains battered Tokyo and large swaths of central and eastern Japan on Saturday evening, leaving four people dead and more than a dozen missing after several rivers burst their banks and landslides buried houses.

Life in the capital had ground to a halt even before Typhoon Hagibis made landfall just before 7 p.m. on the Izu Peninsula southwest of the capital, with public transport suspended, shops shuttered and the streets empty.

The storm disrupted the Rugby World Cup, with two games just outside Tokyo canceled, and played havoc with the buildup to Sunday’s Formula One Grand Prix in Suzuka.

For several hours, typhoon rains drenched one of the world’s most densely populated urban areas, with tens of millions of people trapped indoors watching with concern as rivers filled to dangerous levels. The government sent out high-level alarms telling people first to evacuate — and then to do whatever they could to save their lives.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japan-advises-5-million-people-to-evacuate-homes-as-typhoon-nears-tokyo/2019/10/12/9e926074-eccc-11e9-bafb-da248f8d5734_story.html

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Four dead, more than a dozen missing after Typhoon Hagibis drenches Tokyo (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2019 OP

3 feet of rain fell in some areas. BigmanPigman Oct 2019 #1

Typhoon Hagibis: recovery and rescue in full swing after deadly storm nitpicker Oct 2019 #2

(at least 23 dead) Typhoon Hagibis: Japan deploys military rescuers as deadly storm hits Eugene Oct 2019 #3

There's this too: Backseat Driver Oct 2019 #4

BigmanPigman

(51,609 posts)

1. 3 feet of rain fell in some areas.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 04:26 AM

Oct 2019

nitpicker

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2. Typhoon Hagibis: recovery and rescue in full swing after deadly storm

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Sun Oct 13, 2019, 05:43 AM

Oct 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/13/typhoon-hagibis-rescue-and-recovery-in-full-swing-after-deadly-storm

Typhoon Hagibis: recovery and rescue in full swing after deadly storm

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Sun 13 Oct 2019 05.58 BST Last modified on Sun 13 Oct 2019 10.06 BST

Helicopters plucked people from their flooded homes on Sunday as rescue efforts went into full force following Typhoon Hagibis, which drenched Tokyo and surrounding areas and left at least seven dead and 15 missing.

Public broadcaster NHK gave a higher toll than the government, reporting at least 10 dead and 16 missing plus 128 injured a day after Hagibis, one of the strongest storms to hit Japan in decades, made landfall south of Tokyo and moved northward.

“The major typhoon has caused immense damage far and wide in eastern Japan,” a government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, told reporters on Sunday, adding that 27,000 military troops and other rescue crews were deployed for the operation.

News footage showed a rescue helicopter hovering over a flooded area in Nagano prefecture, where an embankment of the Chikuma river had broken and unleashed sheets of water across residential areas. The helicopter plucked those stranded on the second floor of a home submerged in muddy waters.

Aerial footage showed tractors at work trying to control the flooding. Meanwhile rows of bullet trains were left sitting in a pool of water at a depot.

A stretch of Fukushima was also flooded, with only the rooftops of homes visible in some areas. Parts of nearby Miyagi prefecture were also under water. The Tama river, which runs by Tokyo, overflowed its banks.
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Eugene

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3. (at least 23 dead) Typhoon Hagibis: Japan deploys military rescuers as deadly storm hits

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Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:19 AM

Oct 2019

Source: BBC

Typhoon Hagibis: Japan deploys military rescuers as deadly storm hits

13 October 2019

Japan has deployed tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers after one of the strongest storms in years hit, killing at least 23 people.

Typhoon Hagibis made landfall south of Tokyo on Saturday, moving north and bringing severe flooding.

Seventeen people are missing from the storm, public broadcaster NHK said.

In central Nagano prefecture, water surrounded Japan's famous bullet trains while helicopters plucked stranded residents from rooftops.

A total of 27,000 military troops and other rescue crews have been deployed in relief operations, authorities said.

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Backseat Driver

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4. There's this too:

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Mon Oct 14, 2019, 02:21 AM

Oct 2019

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=ED-20191014-69904-JPN

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Environment Pollution in Japan on October 14 2019 05:26 AM (UTC).

As Typhoon Hagibis hammered Japan on Saturday (Oct. 12), thousands of bags containing radioactive waste have reportedly been carried into a local Fukushima stream by floodwaters, potentially having a devastating environmental impact. According to Asahi Shimbun, a temporary storage facility containing some 2,667 bags stuffed with radioactive contaminants from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was unexpectedly inundated by floodwaters brought by Typhoon Hagibis. Torrential rain flooded the storage facility and released the bags into a stream 100 meters away. Officials from Tamara City in Fukushima Prefecture said that each bag is approximately one cubic meter in size. Authorities were only able to recover six of the bags by 9 p.m. on Oct. 12, and it is uncertain how many remain on the loose while the possible environmental impact is being assessed.

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