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TumbleDry
RIP to the victims.
It was supposed to be a weak typhoon...
PTownsend
Hats off to all emergency responders in law enforcement, fire, rescue and medical services, plus to the members of the SDF for the risks you take and all you do to help out. Thanks to all the individuals who are willing to get involved to help their fellow community members.
Laguna
That's all yesterday's news - I'm sure, at dawn now after last night's and the still-continuing deluge, no one has any grasp on what is happening.
Kumamoto dodged a bullet. I smoked cigarettes on my veranda until 2:00, watching violent, very frequent lightning bursts just to the north - that's where the storm started.
This is a very serious disaster - and it's still raining. Hard.
Strangerland
This is all over the news. It's crazy. It looks like everything flooded.
Dan Lewis
@TumbleDry - I think it was a fairly weak typhoon. It was the rain that turned out to be a problem.
TumbleDry
DanLewis: indeed, this is mentioned in previous article. I stand corrected.
Laguna
According to NHK, this is the mechanism of the deluge. A typhoon is a huge low-pressure system, and as it moved north, it created a sort of vacuum behind it, which sucked along a huge amount of warm, wet air. The jetstream then pushed the typhoon east, over Kumamoto, and again, the low pressure trailing behind strengthened the jetstream. When the warm, wet air from the south met the cooler, dry air of the jetstream - well, you see the results. (This also explains the lightning.) The jetstream meanders a bit north-south; we in Kumamoto were just lucky it happened to be over northern Kyushu last night. It will likely take a few days for systematic equilibrium to be restored, so expect more rain.
Luddite
Many thanks to the emergency services. We take them for granted most of the time.
Goodlucktoyou
We should be more prepared for natural disasters. We have one of the finest equipted armies in the world. Armies should be trained and used for self protection and disaster relief. Strange Abe suddenly reappeared as superman. I would like to offer my spare rooms to those affected, but location differences is a problem. Let's fight on Japan!
Brian Wheway
"545.5 millimeters over a 24-hour period" WOW thats a lot of water, and then think that a large area has been covered by this amount that is a lot of water that has to go some where, no wonder the rivers are at capacity.
Ron Barnes
My heart goes out to all of those effected .
With this amount of flooding and damage the residents will take a very long time to recover and many will need the help of outsiders to repair their homes to be livable again .
I hope all of Japan ban together and all put into help these poor people of this disaster
Lien Pham
I hope All You will be Fine .
Bernie O'Mahony
The lightning was unreal. It was like watching something out of a science fiction movie.
I hope the victims and their families can find some normality quickly, and may those lost, rest in peace.