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Rainclouds over Japan
© Photo: YAHOO 台風情報
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BBC UK NEWS
Last Updated: Friday, 3 August 2007
Typhoon Usagi hits southern Japan
Eighteen people were injured and thousands sought shelter as Typhoon Usagi struck Japan's southern island of Kyushu.
The typhoon made landfall late on Thursday, bringing winds of up to 180 km/h (110mph).
It cut power to thousands of homes and felled trees. Bullet trains from the main island, Honshu, were suspended.
Usagi is moving northwards, but it has weakened and meteorologists have now downgraded it to a tropical storm.
Television footage showed uprooted trees and flooded rivers. A number of flights were cancelled.
Among the injured was an 81-year-old woman in the southern prefecture of Kagoshima who was blown over and broke her thigh, a local official said.
A postman was injured after wind overturned his van, another official said. Two people were reportedly hurt in falls from roofs.
In the hardest-hit areas, families and the elderly took refuge in municipal shelters.
Usagi, which means rabbit in Japanese, is the second major storm to hit Japan this season.
In July, Typhoon Man-yi left three people dead when it struck Kyushu and neighbouring island Shikoku.
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3 comments:
Hi Gabi,
I found your blog via your flickr account. Will you please consider adding this picture of typhoons in Japan to NoComment News at http://NoCommentNews.com? The idea of NoComment News is to show in pictures what's happening around the world now. This photo is great for it.
An please feel free to link back to your blog - many people would be interested in reading your stories.
Thank you!
Tim
Dear Commentator,
this photo is from
© Photo: YAHOO 台風情報 , the Japanese weather service.
HERE
http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/typhoon/typha.html
Gabi
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Dear Gabi,
Your regular postings here in connection with the typhoons which hit Japan bring back strong memories of my years in Manila. The Philippines is battered by at least 20 typhoons per season, some not worth mentioning, others so destructive they leave scars and are still talked about years later. I don't know if global climate change will change all this. When I was a school-going child, I recall waking up at 5.30 or 6 in the morning just to listen to the radio, waiting for the announcement that we didn't have to go to school. Signal 1 = elementary/primary school had no classes; Signal 2 = high school or secondary school was off; Signal 3 = all the way up to university; Signal 4 = your boss could use his discretion to close the office at lunch so that you could leave before the flood waters rose. Somemtimes, we had no electricity. Sometimes the roof leaked, and we had to run to and fro with basins. Those were exciting times. Even the food tasted better, as though we were eating out. But that was for those who had a roof in the first place. The poor suffered, of course, from the cold and from various diseases.
howling wind ...
the excitement of
lighting candles
strong winds ...
now the neighbours
cannot hear us
September rain ...
that was when you left me
at the orphanage
Ella Wagemakers
www.ewchameleon.com
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