Monday, September 9, 2019

Typhoon Faxai Has Passed Directly Over Downtown Tokyo, 900,000 Without Power

We don't usually follow the Pacific typhoons/hurricanes because we come at this stuff from the reinsurance angle and the big money is in the Atlantic.
The population of the Tokyo connurbation is something over 38 million people.

First up, from UPI (also on blogroll at right):
A powerful typhoon battered Japan's capital of Tokyo Monday, halting trains, canceling flights and cutting power to almost a million homes.

Typhoon Faxai, with winds of up to 130 mph, made landfall before dawn in Chiba, east of Tokyo, Monday, after forecasters had warned that the storm could break wind-speed records for the region. Nearly 340,000 people in Tokyo were under evacuation advisories while some 2,000 people in Chiba were subjected to mandatory evacuation orders when the storm hit, Japan Today reported....MORE 
And via Accuweather's Jesse Ferrell:

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