Fukuoka: On Friday, Typhoon Shanshan pour down heavy rains on large parts of Japan, causing warnings for flooding and landslides hundreds of miles away from the storm‘s center, halting travel and halting production at big factories.
Residents of Fukuoka town were hunkering down in the southwest of Kyushu on Thursday when what authorities claimed was one of the strongest storms to hit the area made ashore. The streets were quiet, and shops were closed.
Sheltering at the gate of a rain-lashed, lonely shopping mall near the town’s train station, college student Kokoro Osoegawa, 21, was struggling to get home.
Because of the storms, my parents are coming to pick me up because there are no trains. I stayed at a friend’s house, and then came around. She said,” I expected there to be some carriages, but there are n’t.”
” I’ve always experienced all the carriages stopping before”.
The crisis management agency reports that at least three people have died and 78 have been injured in new storm-related occurrences.
Bringing gusts of up to 50 metres per second ( 180 km per hour/112 mph ), strong enough to blow over moving trucks, the typhoon was near the coastal city of Kunisaki in Oita Prefecture at 8: 45 a. m. ( 2345 GMT ) and moving northeast, according to authorities.
According to Kyushu Electric Power Co., about 125, 000 communities in seven counties were without electricity.
However, the hot, humid heat that is moving around the typhoon has also caused heavy rains in remote areas, which authorities find concerning because of its slower than anticipated movement.
More than 4 million individuals across the nation have received notices warning people to be prepared to leave, primarily in the hard-hit Kyushu region but as far ahead as Tokyo and the local Yokohama. Officials in Yokohama reported that some areas had the potential for landslides as a result of heavy rains.
But, as of Thursday, just some 30, 000 had been evacuated, primarily in Kyushu, crisis management minister Yoshifumi Matsumura said.
After moving from Kyushu, the wind was expected to approach the central and eastern provinces, which includes Tokyo, around the trip, the weather bureau said.
Toyota’s private flowers were temporarily halted by the wind, while other manufacturers Nissan and Honda, Renesas and Tokyo Electron, and electonics tycoon tycoon Sony even temporarily halted manufacturing at some companies.
Carriers, including ANA Holdings and Japan Airlines, have announced delays of thousands of home and some intercontinental flights. On Friday night, a number of ferry and road services, including the gun train connecting Tokyo and Nagoya, were suspended.
Lin Yue-Hua, a 60-year-old tourists from Taiwan, had her journey from Fukuoka back home cancelled on Thursday. She was instructed to reserve a second flight, but she was unsure of when she could gain.
” We were very worried and upset because we did n’t know what to do”, she said.
” We stayed one more time in Japan. Then we learned in the news that our flight from Taiwan could n’t land in Japan after circling the area for about 40 minutes, so it returned to Taiwan. So we have been frantically attempting to return home.
Typhoon Shanshan is the latest severe weather method to reach Japan, following Typhoon Ampil, which even led to disruptions and evacuations, earlier this month.
