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Heavy rainfall in southwestern Japan causes mudslide, threatens floods

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By MARI YAMAGUCHI

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Japanese summer climate is a scourge. Oppressive heat broken only by raging storms. The really frustrating thing this year is that Covid is blocking people like me from escaping.

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Soon back to normal =back to work, crowded trains and stores.

Life goes on and we forget

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Its been crazy here, local river flooded its banks yesterday. Fortunately I live on elevated ground. Stay safe.

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Disastrous rain in Europe and Asia, scorching heat waves causing wild fires of unprecedented proportions in Amazon, California, Australia, Greece and now in the Russian Far East. Receding glaciers, melting icebergs in the Poles and the rising sea level. 

I'm tempted to connect these disasters to abnormal weather, which is itself caused by global warming which in return is caused by man's insatiable thirst for comfortable modern life. Maybe, it's time for humanity to stop to reflect what's really going on around us.

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The meteorological agency said nearly 500 millimeters (20 inches) of rain fell in parts of Nagasaki in the past 48 hours, exceeding the average for the month of August. More downpours were forecast.

This is extreme weather. The recent floods in mainland Europe, which killed hundreds, were caused by half that level of rainfall. Stay safe everyone!

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cough cough

climate change

cough

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Possible. Recommend self-treatments mate, as everything else right now is over-taxed.

- “cough cough

climate change

cough ” -

Stay safe everyone!

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If Japan don't have natural disaster like UK, they would be No.1 in econony and better infrastructure.

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If Japan don't have natural disaster like UK, they would be No.1 in econony and better infrastructure.

Japan only exists because it's being pushed out of the ocean floor by colliding plates.

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Expect Food Shortages upon the Horizon.

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