Typhoon Hagibis: four dead in Japan as ‘worst storm in 60 years’ roars through.

Threat of widespread flooding and landslides compounded by earthquake in Chiba prefecture

Damaged caused by typhoon Hagibis in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, Photograph: AP


Four people were killed and 17 were missing after the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in decades paralysed Tokyo, flooding rivers and putting millions under evacuation warning before it ploughed up the north-eastern coast.

Authorities lifted rain and flood warnings for the Kanto region around a becalmed Tokyo before dawn on Sunday but imposed them on areas further north after super-typhoon Hagibis blasted through the capital.

Attention focused on Fukushima, where Tokyo Electric Power Co overnight reported irregular readings from sensors monitoring water in its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which was crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Four people died in Chiba, Gunma, Kanagawa and Fukushima prefectures surrounding Tokyo, according to public broadcaster NHK. Among them was a man in his 60s who was found with no vital signs in a flooded apartment in Kawasaki, NHK said. Seventeen were missing early on Sunday, it said.


A firefighter makes his way through a flooded residential street in in Tokyo. Photograph: AP


Evacuation orders had been issued to more than 800,000 households in Tokyo on Saturday as Hagibis threatened power cuts and widespread flooding.

Storm surges and high waves raised sea levels by more than a metre along some stretches of the coast, and waters in Tokyo Bay were up by 50cm, increasing the danger of severe flooding in the city centre.

The heavy rain caused a river in Nagano prefecture, north-west of Tokyo, to flood its banks. Some houses along the Chikuma river were nearly fully submerged in water and at least one person was rescued from the roof of a house by helicopter, NHK said. Part of a road was swept away in flooding.

Authorities issued evacuation advisories and orders for more than 6 million people across Japan as the storm unleashed the heaviest rain and winds in years. Some 80 injuries were reported while more than 270,000 households lost power, NHK said.


Surging waves generated by typhoon Hagibis hit the seashore in Mie prefecture. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA


On Saturday the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a level-five warning, its highest, and urged more than 45 million residents of Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Gunma, Yamanashi and Nagano prefectures to find a secure building or move to higher floors. It lifted the alerts early on Sunday.

Authorities said they were planning to release water from the Shiroyama dam, 50km west of Tokyo, to reduce the risk of it bursting. They urged residents of six nearby towns to protect themselves as discharging water into an area already experiencing torrential rain was expected to cause severe flooding. About 17,000 military personnel were placed on standby for rescue operations.

The giant storm measuring 1,400km across and capable of producing 200km/h winds was compared to 1958’s typhoon Ida, which wrought destruction across the Greater Tokyo area and eastern Shizuoka prefecture, killing 1,200 people. The death toll is unlikely to be anywhere near as high this time thanks to Japan’s stringent building safety standards and comprehensive disaster warning systems. Emergency alerts accompanied by loud chimes were being sent direct to tens of millions of smartphone users in the affected areas.

By Saturday morning roofs had been ripped off houses in Chiba prefecture. This area, north-east of Tokyo, was still recovering from September’s typhoon Faxai which killed three people, injured more than 40 and left hundreds of thousands of homes without power.

On Saturday a 50-year-old man was killed in Chiba when his car was flipped over by the wind, while another person died after being washed away in a car, NHK said.

“When the winds suddenly hit they blew the roof off my house,” a resident told NHK. “The noise was awful. One of my three children was injured and is now in a hospital.”

Adding to the danger of landslides, an earthquake measuring four in Chiba on the Japanese seismic intensity scale, whose highest grading is seven, hit the Pacific Ocean at 6.22pm local time on Saturday.

Tokyo Disney Resort shut down on Saturday for the first time since the earthquake and resulting deadly tsunami in 2011 that killed nearly 20,000 people, while all bullet trains and most flights in and out of the greater Tokyo area and its surrounding prefectures were cancelled.

The Tokyo metropolitan government opened an evacuation centre in Tokyo’s Ueno district for foreign tourists stranded by the shutdown. Organisers cancelled Saturday’s qualifying session for the Suzuka grand prix, although the race was expected to take place on Sunday afternoon.

The England v France World Cup rugby game, due to have been played in Yokohama on 12 October, was cancelled the previous day. A decision on Sunday’s match between Japan and Scotland was due following an inspection scheduled late on Saturday night.

Scotland, who would be eliminated from the World Cup if the match were to be cancelled, called for the game to be switched to Monday. “Right from the get go, we said we would play any place, anywhere, behind closed doors, in full stadiums,” said Scottish Rugby’s chief executive, Mark Dodson.

Hagibis is expected to head out to sea on Sunday evening.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/12/japan-typhoon-hagibis-tokyo-earthquake-rugby-flood-rain

God punished them for their country having hosted a LGBT world cup.
This is a little warning may be.
The next time this Island might meet the fate of Gomorrah.

Japan and natural disasters sha

panafrican:
God punished them for their country having hosted a LGBT world cup.
This is a little warning may be.
The next time this Island might meet the fate of Gomorrah.

Sorry, What is punished?
Japan is disaster country.
Earthquake, Typhoon, Volcano etc.
Not from today.
At this time, 18peoples dead, 13peoples missing, 149peoples injured.
Very sad situation now.

Very sad but little bit interesting about your opinion to me.
I didn't know about LGBT world cup in Japan.
I know Rugby world cup and Valleyball world cup in Japan now.
This typhoon is because of LGBT world cup in Japan?
Then that is punished for Japan?

Please if not disturbing you or not bothering you, I wanna know about it.
Please can you help me to know about punished and disaster in Japan?
I wanna understand it.

peacefull:


Sorry, What is punished?
Japan is disaster country.
Earthquake, Typhoon, Volcano etc.
Not from today.
At this time, 18peoples dead, 13peoples missing, 149peoples injured.
Very sad situation now.

Very sad but little bit interesting about your opinion to me.
I didn't know about LGBT world cup in Japan.
I know Rugby world cup and Valleyball world cup in Japan now.
This typhoon is because of LGBT world cup in Japan?
Then that is punished for Japan?

Please if not disturbing you or not bothering you, I wanna know about it.
Please can you help me to know about punished and disaster in Japan?
I wanna understand it.

The LGBT world cup in Japan was hosted this month. It is perhaps still ongoing .Google it .

Perverted places like California , Japan etc are arrogant toward God.
They will continue to get hit until they get the message.

panafrican:
[s]God punished them for their country having hosted a LGBT world cup.
This is a little warning may be.
The next time this Island might meet the fate of Gomorrah.[/s]

panafrican:

[s]The LGBT world cup in Japan was hosted this month. It is perhaps still ongoing .Google it .

Perverted places like California , Japan etc are arrogant toward God.
They will continue to get hit until they get the message.[/s]

You lack sense

panafrican:

The LGBT world cup in Japan was hosted this month. It is perhaps still ongoing .Google it .

Perverted places like California , Japan etc are arrogant toward God.
They will continue to get hit until they get the message.

Thank you for replied my question.
I appreciate you!

I checked about that.
I couldn't find out about that world cup.
But I saw something like that.

Are you a Christian?
You said God is Jesus Christ?
Or any other religion?
Japan made something bad to your God?
Then punished to Japan?
That punished is disaster?

I'm so sorry for asking you many many questions.
I still can't understand about punished and disaster in Japan.
And little bit sounds like scary to me.

peacefull:


Thank you for replied my question.
I appreciate you!

I checked about that.
I couldn't find out about that world cup.
But I saw something like that.

Are you a Christian?
You said God is Jesus Christ?
Or any other religion?
Japan made something bad to your God?
Then punished to Japan?
That punished is disaster?

I'm so sorry for asking you many many questions.
I still can't understand about punished and disaster in Japan.
And little bit sounds like scary to me.

I'm
1. African , meaning the original CONSERVATIVE man , not the manufactured and confusedt ones who cannot see any difference between a NATURAL man and a NATRUAL woman.

2. A Catholic not a cross burner ( KKK); not a slave plantation owner who would feel blessed for having slaves he can use like cattles.

If you don't see any link between any so called natural disaster and the wicked acts of humans then it is time you read Genesis and the book of Proverbs .
Remember Proverb 9:10
" The fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom"

Isinweke:


Don't mind that Idiot,

Japan will soon rebuild that region in few months.

Wait o, you don't type like a Nigeria

Are you a Nigerian?

I'm Japanese.
Yes! Japan will get well soon!
I believe it and I wanna believe it.
Japanese are never give up.
Will stand up over and over again!

Isinweke:
Mr. Peacefull, I knew you're not a Nigerian when I saw your comments, you're too polite to be Nigerian, I have gone through your post and read your story, You're a Japanese,
Most Nigerians are too religious, they blame every natural disasters on sin against God, it seems that user up there is from India, India is also highly religious, religion is the reason they are backward compared to China,
I'm not a religious person, the natural disaster that happened to Japan is natural and has nothing to do with sin, gay or God. So don't mind that guy.

Yes, I'm Japanese.
I'm sorry for disturbing your page.
I have never heard about punished and disaster.
That is something new to me.
So I wanna know and I wanna understand about that.
I like to hear and I like to know about something I don't know.
It's always good for me to hearing about different opinion.
I'm learning.

But I'm so sorry.
I maybe too much disturbing your page.
I'm apologies you.

panafrican:

I'm
1. African , meaning the original CONSERVATIVE man , not the manufactured and confusedt ones who cannot see any difference between a NATURAL man and a NATRUAL woman.

2. A Catholic not a cross burner ( KKK); not a slave plantation owner who would feel blessed for having slaves he can use like cattles.

If you don't see any link between any so called natural disaster and the wicked acts of humans then it is time you read Genesis and the book of Proverbs .
Remember Proverb 9:10
" The fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom"

Thank you for taking your time.
I really appreciate you!

You are Catholic Christian?
My husband also Catholic Christian.
But I have never heard about punished and disaster in Japan from him.

Anyway, I'm so sorry for too much disturbing you and your time.
Thank you so much for replied my questions.
I really really appreciate you!

Isinweke:


Mr. Man stop writing rubbish on my thread, go and create your own and narrate how God ordered storm from the sky and directed it to Japan.
The person you're quoting is not a Christian. She is a Japanese and you're even making it looks like your God is evil and wicked for killing innocent Japanese. You think everyone is brainwashed and can't think out of the box?
how do you explain to a Japanese that God is behind the disaster that have killed over 25 innocent people in Japan, destroy properties worth billions of dollar and cause much pain to the people,
You're here saying all these happened because some gay played football in Japan.
are the gays playing football on Earth millions/billions of years ago?

Your reasoning is backward

Please, I'm so sorry for disturbing your page.
He/she just replied my questions.
I'm the one who disturbing on here.
I'm really so sorry.
I'm apologies you.

Isinweke:


Alright, you're welcome.
I'm just saying he is lying about punishment with disaster, there is no proof that God can punish people/country with natural disaster. natural disaster is older than humans and their Gods/God

I learned a lot on here.
I learned new thing again!
I really appreciate both of you.
Thank you so much!!