More than a million people in central and western Japan were asked to evacuate yesterday, so prepare a storm water flows into this.
According to the BBC , Japan's meteorological agency warned Roke heavy rains caused by storms can cause landslides and flooding. The storm has winds of up to 144km / h and will also be strengthened. More than 460,000 households have been asked to evacuate the city of Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture. This is where officials fear rising river dike could break. Images on television showed people wading in Nagoya had higher than the knees. In some areas of the city, rescue workers have moved people in rubber boats.
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| Rescue workers used rubber boats to move people in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture.(Photo: AFP) |
Evacuation order was issued in a province neighboring Gifu and Hyogo. In Gifu, a 9-year-old boy and his 84-year-old instrument is said to have drowned after being swept away by floodwaters. In Miyazaki Prefecture, measured rainfall today is nearly 400mm. According to television station NHK, there are 40,000 people here were advised to evacuate for fear landslides, where the volcanic ash erupted just after the wave of volcanic eruptions recently.
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| People wading in floodwaters in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. (Photo: AFP) |
According to Japan's meteorological agency, Roke storm expected to make landfall in central Japan today and move towards the northeast, to the region have nuclear power plants in Fukushima were damaged. "We recommend the highest level of alert because of heavy rain, strong winds and high waves," the agency said in a press conference on television.
Officials have warned that heavy rains will occur over a large area of Japan today and said that a few places that were flooded for up to 50mm of rain in an hour.
Earlier this month, Talas storms swept through western Japan has at least about 90 people dead and missing.
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