How much damage did Typhoon Hagibis bring to Japan?
Typhoons are a headache every year, and some particularly lethal typhoons can cause heavy losses to the local economy. Japan is a country surrounded by sea. Every year, Japanese typhoon weather also has a great impact on Japan. Some people will prepare food and other supplies in advance. Typhoon Hagibis, No. 19 this year, has approached the coast of Japan. This typhoon is very powerful. At 8 a.m. local time on the 12th, the roofs of several houses in a residential area in Chiba Prefecture were blown off, causing injuries to many people, including children. On the morning of the 12th, 480,000 households in Chiba County were without power.
The emergence of strong typhoons has also affected people's life safety. For example, a 50-year-old man from Chiba Prefecture was killed by an overturned car. In addition, a man in Gunma Prefecture and a woman in Sagamihara City, Tokyo, died due to landslides.
In addition, in Tokyo Bay, Japan, there is also a Panamanian freighter docked here, which also sank due to a strong typhoon. In the end, 5 people were killed and 3 missing. Nowadays, even the sewers on the streets of Japan have claimed the life of a woman from Tochigi Prefecture.
In addition, due to the emergence of strong typhoons, the Japan Meteorological Agency issued the highest level heavy rain warning - level 5 heavy rain warning - for 12 regions in Japan. According to information released by the Japan Meteorological Agency, this heavy rain may be the largest since 1958.
Due to the emergence of strong typhoons, floods have caused flooding in Nagano and Fukushima areas, submerging houses and rice fields. Especially in the Fukushima area, the heavy rain brought by the typhoon washed several bags of garbage generated by the decontamination operations of the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the river. You must know that these garbage are not simple, they contain certain nuclear radiation.
At the same time, due to the heavy rain brought by the typhoon, Japan's Shinkansen vehicles were flooded. The 10 Shinkansen trains that previously carried 1/3 of the Shinkansen's capacity are now soaked in floods. In addition, some experts have estimated that all these trains are likely to be scrapped.
Except for the Shinkansen, Japan’s subways and trains have actually been suspended on a large scale. But the good news is that Tokyo Haneda Airport and a small number of Shinkansen lines have resumed operations in the early morning of the 13th.