Have DUers seen the flooding in Eastern Japan this morning

[malaise]

Damn!! Lots of concern over radiation and contaminated water.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/10/japan-floods-spark-evacuations-of-thousands-from-towns

Spare a thought for the folks in Japan.

[Art_from_Ark]

1. I am in Eastern Japan

and there has been a lot of flooding around here. Today I've seen lots of rescue helicopters buzzing about, firetrucks, police cars, you name it. Lots of evacuation orders have been issued, and there have been lots of traffic jams. It's surreal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.jp/2015/09/10/kinugawa-joso_n_8114260.html

[malaise]

2. Stay safe

[lovemydog]

3. Thanks.

All the best to you. Stay safe.

[Tree-Hugger]

12. Stay safe nt

[Generic Other]

28. Oh my gosh!

Any news of Mito City?

[Art_from_Ark]

29. I haven't heard of any damage up there

but it appears that the evacuation advisories and landslide warnings for that area have been lifted.

http://typhoon.yahoo.co.jp/weather/rainstorm/08/08201/#flood

[Generic Other]

30. We didn't want to call all in a panic at 3AM

So good to know.

[Art_from_Ark]

31. Here you go

A rather poor machine translation, but maybe it's understandable

http://www15.j-server.com/LUCMITO/ns/tl.cgi/http%3a//www.city.mito.lg.jp/000027/000029/p015540.html?SLANG=ja&TLANG=en&XMODE=0&XPARAM=q,&XCHARSET=utf-8&XPORG=,&XJSID=0

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Wow - 24 inches of rain since Sunday; over 20 inches in 24 hours

http://www.weather.com/storms/typhoon/news/tropical-storm-etau-japan-flooding-landslides

[malaise]

5. Amazing indeed

Dominica had close to 15 inches in less than 24 hours as a result of TS Erika.

This is definitely a feature of climate change - this heavy rain is so damned destructive.

[Art_from_Ark]

20. The time stamp on that map seems to be a bit off

It says, "As of 11PM JST Thursday", but it was posted at 6:49 PM JST Thursday

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. They've updated it in place; when I posted, the figure for Nikko was 24 point something

It is now 26.30", but I guess they may change that again.

[Art_from_Ark]

25. If Nikko is getting that much rain,

it's bad news for downstream areas of the Kinugawa River (like Joso)

[secondwind]

6. Damn, this is incredible....

[LiberalElite]

7. I just saw it on the news

- just incredible.

[yuiyoshida]

8. holy crap!!!

STAY SAFE MY FRIENDS IN JAPAN!!! Chūi shite kudasai!!

[betsuni]

9. Just saw the news.

Levies broke in that city in Ibaraki, 6,900 house damaged. Rescue was prompt, still going on. Luckily, not many casualties so far, I think 7 injured. Rice fields flooded right before harvest. Thought the typhoon was going to directly hit my city, but we only had rain, then high winds with no rain, later distant lightning.

[malaise]

10. Glad you're OK

Stay safe

[betsuni]

11. Thank you!

Luckily I'm not near a river or hill or mountain were there could be mudslides. Too much rain this year.

[Tree-Hugger]

13. whoa :(

Please continue to stay safe

[betsuni]

14. My husband told me that the Kinugawa river that flooded Joso city is known as ...

the angry goblin. Indeed.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. I drove through part of Joso City today

on my way to work in a neighboring town. At that time, I was not aware of the flooding a little to the north of where I was passing through. I heard about it later from a greengrocer. Later, I received an emergency notice on my cell phone advising evacuation from one of the areas that I had passed through earlier in the day. Then, on my way back home tonight, I saw that the cops had blocked two major roads that led to Joso City-- one going west, and one going north. One of the roads crosses over the Kinugawa River. I had to be extra careful driving home.

And yes, "Kinu" in this case means "angry goblin" (or usually translated as "angry demon&quot 鬼怒川.

[betsuni]

16. Oh no, just saw on the news that

people in the evacuation center (I guess in Joso city) haven't received food or blankets yet, 12 hours after being evacuated. No radio or TV, the evacuation center is surrounded by water, there are pregnant women, babies, old people...

[malaise]

17. Nine people missing

121 rescued - this is a major disaster.
Huge problem with radiation water overflowing - now contained.

[Art_from_Ark]

18. I might be misinterpreting your post, but

Joso City isn't really connected with the radiation disaster. That's about 130 miles to the north.

[malaise]

19. True but there were serious problems with contaminated water flooding

The heavy rain, which is expected to spread north on Friday, has also caused additional leaks of radioactive water at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said rain had overwhelmed the site’s drainage pumps, sending hundreds of tonnes of contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.

Workers at the Fukushima plant have had to store huge quantities of contaminated water used to cool melted fuel in three badly damaged reactors in thousands of steel tanks.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/10/japan-floods-spark-evacuations-of-thousands-from-towns

[Art_from_Ark]

22. The local forecast doesn't predict too much rain for the reactor area tomorrow

(that is, later today)

http://weather.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/7/3620/7212.html

However, there are several flood advisories for that area.

[malaise]

23. You just stay safe

[Art_from_Ark]

26. Thanks

[Rex]

24. Just read about that! Yikes! Stay safe people!

Looks horrible, saw people still standing inside their houses as the water raged around them!

[AuntPatsy]

27. Here's hoping the people of Japan get through this safely as also our Japan Durs