Japan Gets Hit Hard
Over the weekend a nasty typhoon named Man-yi hit the southern islands of Japan, mainly Kyushu and Shikoku doing a lot of damage. The latest report is that 4 have died in the flooding that followed and around 70 where injured. The typhoon was on its way here and we all prepared for the worst but it never came. We heard that it would hit Tokyo around 5 or 6am Sunday morning so we closed all the shutters and put the house on lock down. And when I woke up in the morning it was steadily raining but no worse then the day before. Basically the typhoon has stopped just off shore and had been dumping rain on the city all night. We waited for it to get worse all day but it never came, and by the evening we could see blue sky through the clouds.
Over the weekend a nasty typhoon named Man-yi hit the southern islands of Japan, mainly Kyushu and Shikoku doing a lot of damage. The latest report is that 4 have died in the flooding that followed and around 70 where injured. The typhoon was on its way here and we all prepared for the worst but it never came. We heard that it would hit Tokyo around 5 or 6am Sunday morning so we closed all the shutters and put the house on lock down. And when I woke up in the morning it was steadily raining but no worse then the day before. Basically the typhoon has stopped just off shore and had been dumping rain on the city all night. We waited for it to get worse all day but it never came, and by the evening we could see blue sky through the clouds.
Just a day after Man-yi passed, the main island of Honshu on the was rocked by two huge earthquakes near Niigata prefecture on the Sea of Japan side of the island. This caused even more immediate damage then the typhoon and at least 8 people were killed and about 800 were injured according to NHK. The initial quake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale and we could feel them all the way in Tokyo. The second quake hit around midnight and was measured at 6.6 and the A.P. reported that the second quake was not an after shock of the first, but an unrelated event. I read that skyscrapers in Tokyo swayed for almost a full minute and that's some thing because Niigata is about 130 miles away. NHK also reported that approximately 7,000 people have had to flee their homes because of the damage.
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The updated figures on the earthquake are 9 comfirmed dead and one missing, with over 13,000 homeless. Also there is a worry of a possible nuclear spill at a power plant.
Keep up doing these blogs. Even when we don't comment we are looking at them - almost every day! We're not being nosy, just being parents! Want to know how you're doing. I check Emi's all the time too to see all the great stuff she is baking. Good talking to you son - miss you! - Mom
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