Posted on 09/10/2015 4:48:58 AM PDT by nuconvert
Widespread flooding and landslides in north-east Japan have forced more than 90,000 people to abandon their homes.
The city of Joso, north of the capital, Tokyo, was hit by a wall of water after the Kinugawa River burst its banks. Helicopter rescue teams have been plucking people from rooftops.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I’m in southern Japan and was just watching the news about this horrific flood . Earthquakes , typhoons , tsunamis , volcanoes , floods ...
I pulled up the location of Joso on Google Maps and I’m kind of not surprised that it would flood, given that area is pretty flat topographically. I hate to imagine how high the Tone River downstream is around the railroad bridges just south of JR East’s Toride Station....
Sunds extremely serious, but is this another instance in modern journalism where “unprecedented” equates to something not within the memory of those born after 1976?
It’s been a very wet last couple weeks in Tokyo. Water right up to the edge of the Tamagawa banks. All passed now. We’ll have at least a week of sunny/cloudy weather to dry out.
It’s the Brits reporting, so who knows
“...have forced more than 90,000 people to abandon their homes.”
Sorry, Gang. Europe is full up with imported terrorists. No room for you. :(
It looks awful
Back in the last century when I lived in Hamamatsu, we had a couple of near misses of hurricanes, and the Tenryu River was right to the top of the levies. The levies were about 10-15 meters tall, and if they had failed, about a third of the city of 450,000 would have been flooded. However, there wasn’t one warning issued and the levies held.
I can’t decide if that was faith in engineering and construction or willful ignorance.
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