Tokyo will go under water
At least 100 people were seriously injured and at least one was killed in a typhoon "Dzhelavat" that struck Japan. Brunt of the disaster was in the central part of the island of Honshu.
Gusty wind speed reaches 50 km / h and torrential rains led to the break power lines, leaving no light left over 300 thousand homes, reports Sky News.
Currently "Dzhelavat" moving towards the capital region. Japanese authorities have announced the evacuation of over 100,000 people. Expected to come to Tokyo typhoon Monday evening. The streets of the city, according to witnesses, almost deserted. According to the forecasts of meteorologists, wave height, which will fall on the Japanese capital with squally winds will be at least 10 meters.
Because of the "Dzhelavata" in Japan practically paralyzed air travel: canceled a total of 600 flights. Terminated and rail traffic. Experts fear that the river can get out of its banks and cause floods. In addition, they do not exclude new victims landslides: in a number of prefectures dropped per hour rainfall exceeds 50 mm, which leads to soil erosion.
Assess the scale of the devastation inflicted by the element can be a video that spread a network of eyewitnesses. On one of them you can see how easily the wind picks up in the air vehicle that flies, turning over a few tens of meters.
Experts hope that the "Dzhelavat" which once fell to the Japanese coast, weakened somewhat, and continue on to lose strength. However, although a typhoon and there is every chance in the near future to become a tropical storm, it moves to the central part of the country and, therefore, serious damage can not be avoided, experts conclude.
"Dzhelavat" has become for Japan is the third such test last month. Earlier typhoons "Bolaven" and "Tembin" caused flooding in the south of the country, and left without light tens of thousands of homes. Because of the "Bolaven" also affected the Khabarovsk Territory.
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