I'm presently watching a video on CNN of people on the third story of a building. Water is rushing by about 1 story deep. Many homes in a several block area i'm watching are inundated from the helicopter view. Not a happy situation. The commentator says this is north of Tokyo. As I am watching a home is washing away floating on the current. At least one person is missing but from the looks of this a lot of people could be in trouble. It is happening so quickly and is such a large flood no one has a handle on it yet. Over 20 inches of rainfall has come down in three days. That much rain is going to cause problems almost anywhere there are a lot of people living. We often get 16 inches in 3 days in California and this can be catastrophic in some areas here when this happens here. I can't imagine 20 inches in three days with no end in sight there. This is happening to a highly populated area so it is really bad. To make matters worse this is a retirement area. Now 170,000 people have been told to evacuate. more rain is coming including a tropical storm as well. I'm watching helicopters evacuate people now from their homes. Flooding is also a problem because it is affecting Fukushima Nuclear power plant. So, radiated water may be released accidentally into the environment or into the ocean from holding tanks that may get washed into the ocean. It says below in the article that parts of this area have received 60 centimeters of rain or almost 2 feet of rain in three days.
Japan orders 90,000 to evacuate as heavy rain triggers floods
The Hindu39 minutes agoFloods spark evacuations as Japan is deluged
AFP via Yahoo! News41 minutes agoJapan floods spark evacuations of thousands from towns
Japan orders 90,000 to evacuate as heavy rain triggers floods
Reuters An aerial view shows residential areas flooded by the Kinugawa river (top), caused by typhoon Etau in Joso, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan.Tokyo, Sep 10:Authorities in central Japan today ordered tens of thousands to flee their homes after torrential rains flooded rivers and triggered landslides, with one person missing after a mudslide buried houses.The Japan Meteorological Agency issued special downpour warnings for Tochigi and Ibaraki prefectures, north of Tokyo, urging vigilance against mudslides and flooding.“This is a scale of downpour that we have not experienced before. Grave danger could be imminent,” meteorologist Takuya Deshimaru said at an emergency press conference.Parts of central Tochigi have been deluged with almost 60 centimetres (two feet) of rain since Monday evening.Authorities in Tochigi ordered more than 90,000 residents to evacuate, while another 80,000 were advised to leave their homes, public broadcaster NHK said.The meteorological observatory in Tochigi said the Kinugawa river, which also runs through Ibaraki, overflowed today.In Tochigi’s Kanuma city, a local official said rescuers were searching for a missing person believed to be buried in mudslides. “We don’t know details of the person yet,” he said.NHK reported it was a woman in her 60s buried after mudslides destroyed houses.Her husband was rescued soon after, it said.(This article was published on September 10, 2015)end quote from:
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