Strong Typhoon Roke Moves Towards Japan
Typhoon Roke / NASA image
Roke was moving northeast toward the Japanese island of Honshu at 35 km/h and was forecast to come ashore on September 21, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Roke could bring as much as 500 millimeters of rain.
Strong winds and rain led to the cancellation of train services and power cuts in Tokyo. TEPCO informed that more than 500,000 households were without electricity, even Toyota and Nissan, were forced to close plants.
As reported by "The Japan Times" "Typhoon Roke promises to bring unwelcome rain to areas of Japan still recovering from Typhoon Talas, which triggered landslides and floods across the Kii Peninsula in early September 2011. The new typhoon has the potential to trigger additional landslides and floods, particularly as rainwater builds up behind mud dams formed by landslides during Typhoon Talas. Fearing floods from two rivers, officials in the city of Nagoya ordered the evacuation of 80,000 people and advised more than a million more to evacuate"
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