Kyushu braces for more rain after at least 19 die

National Jul. 13, 2012 - 05:30PM JST ( 13 )

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jessebaybayJul. 13, 2012 - 02:03PM JST

Man.. I don't know who to blame, but give japan a break! please.
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ReformedBasherJul. 13, 2012 - 02:29PM JST

Terrible...
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ben4shortJul. 13, 2012 - 02:46PM JST

Man.. I don't know who to blame, but give japan a break! please.

**jessebaybay, ** why, pray tell, do you feel the need to "blame" anyone or anything? This is simply beautifully neutral Mother Nature doing her thing, the same lovely Lady who brings us rainbows and breathtaking sunsets. Do you "blame" anyone for those? Do you even thank anyone/thing?
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DenTok2009Jul. 13, 2012 - 03:26PM JST

It's still just very gusty here in Ichikawa Shi, Chiba. I am rather enjoying this. Last year it was beastly hot. I was so thirsty. Usually when it's hot, I go for shaved ice and ice cream but last year the heat made me lose my appetite. I was only thirsty for water or lemonade. The good thing was I sweated so much and barely ate that I shed off excess weight!
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LagunaJul. 13, 2012 - 04:07PM JST

I'm pretty well set to wrap up this rainy season thing so that we can move on to typhoon season. I hate it when they overlap.
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CrazyJoeJul. 13, 2012 - 04:56PM JST

" rainfall of 10.1 centimeters per hour "is equivalent to at least 1.01 meters of snow per hour , so you can imagine.
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Burbanks AyaJul. 13, 2012 - 06:31PM JST

Oh no! I worried about my family in Kagoshima!
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SerranoJul. 13, 2012 - 09:01PM JST

Thanks a lot, Mother Nature.
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FadamorJul. 13, 2012 - 09:20PM JST

If you HAVE to afix blame, then global warming is your culprit. As the Earth warms, extremes in weather will increase because the normal seasonal airflows get displaced. (All you ultra-conservative pro-business types please note I'm talking about global warming [a proven fact] and made no reference to man-made global warming [which is a topic of debate]) Where the Washington area just worked its way out of a 9-day span where temperatures topped 35°C each day - breaking records all around the area, it looks like Kyuushu is facing unprecedented torrential rains. As the Earth continues to warm, it will get worse.
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FarmboyJul. 13, 2012 - 10:12PM JST

The weather agency urged residents of Kyushu to continue exercising vigilance against mudslides and floods

How, I wonder, can one be vigilant against mudslides or floods? By all reports, they come and take your whole house in a moment. Evacuate, yes, that is something one can do, but I imagine by time you realize you really ought to leave, it's too dangerous to risk it. I have a lot of sympathy for the people in that situation.
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FadamorJul. 13, 2012 - 10:33PM JST

IF you happened to be up on the hillside and IF you happened to notice a crack forming, then you could get advance warning of a mudslide. I was part of a Red Cross damage evaluation after a river flooded in Upstate New York, when we were re-directed to a highway to the south. The rains that had caused the rivers to flood had weakened a hill along the road. Overnight the hill gave away and rumbled across the highway - burying two houses up to their second story windows. The people inside had no warning, but luckily were in their beds upstairs when it hit. Had it been dinnertime, they would have been buried alive by the liquified mud that blasted through their first floors. Odds are, they had no "mudslide" rider on their home insurance.
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Arturo HernandezJul. 13, 2012 - 11:26PM JST

My prays are for the people of Kyushu, I was there last March, hope my friends and families are ok... I pray for them. Wonder how is Bepu city?....
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Matthew SimonJul. 13, 2012 - 11:59PM JST

I am happy I live on a rock mountain right now. (In Nagasaki Ken) I feel for those in the valleys.