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關鍵詞:Typhoon Hagibis
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ALTHOUGH TYPHOONS ARE NOT UNCOMMON IN JAPAN, HAGIBIS -- WHICH MEANS "SPEED" IN THE PHILIPPINE LANGUAGE TAGALOG -- WAS PARTICULARLY BRUTAL, LEADING TO THE HIGH DEATH TOLL. IT IS ONE OF THE DEADLIEST TYPHOONS TO HAVE HIT JAPAN IN THE PAST DECADE, SURPASSED ONLY BY TYPHOON TALAS IN 2011, WHICH CAUSED 82 DEATHS.
PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE TOLD A PARLIAMENTARY SESSION THAT THE NUMBER OF DEATHS TIED TO TYPHOON HAGIBIS HAD CLIMBED TO 53 AND WAS EXPECTED TO RISE, AS AT LEAST ANOTHER NINE PEOPLE ARE PRESUMED DEAD. KYODO NEWS AGENCY, CITING ITS OWN TALLY, PUT THE DEATH TOLL AT 69.
POLICE SEARCH A FLOODED AREA IN THE AFTERMATH OF TYPHOON HAGIBIS, WHICH CAUSED SEVERE FLOODS AT THE CHIKUMA RIVER IN NAGANO.
THE BIGGEST TYPHOON TO HIT JAPAN IN DECADES HAS LEFT A TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION IN ITS WAKE. MORE THAN 40 PEOPLE DIED AS A RESULT OF TYPHOON HAGIBIS AND HUNDREDS HAVE BEEN RESCUED AFTER BEING STRANDED BY FLOODED RIVERS AND LANDSLIDES.
HAGIBIS HURTLED TOWARD JAPAN WITH WIND SPEEDS REACHING 216 KILOMETERS PER HOUR (134 MILES PER HOUR), ACCORDING TO THE JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY. AUTHORITIES HAD WARNED HAGIBIS WAS ON A PAR WITH A TYPHOON THAT WREAKED HAVOC IN THE TOKYO REGION IN 1958, BUT MODERN SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE HELPED SAVE LIVES. THE TYPHOON SIX DECADES AGO LEFT OVER 1,200 PEOPLE DEAD AND HALF A MILLION HOUSES FLOODED.
AS OF WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, THE METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY DESCRIBED THE STORM AS “VIOLENT” — ITS HIGHEST CLASSIFICATION — ADDING THAT THE STORM HAD SUSTAINED WINDS OF 198 KPH. THE U.S. MILITARY’S JOINT TYPHOON WARNING CENTER, OBSERVING HIGHER SUSTAINED WINDS OF 259 KPH, CLASSIFIED HAGIBIS AS A CATEGORY 5-EQUIVALENT SUPER TYPHOON.
AS A MASSIVE STORM LIKE TYPHOON HAGIBIS APPROACHES LANDFALL, YOU MIGHT EXPECT FOREBODING DARK CLOUDS TO APPEAR ON THE HORIZON.
RESIDENTS AND SURVIVORS WERE PICKED UP IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN JAPAN AFTER TYPHOON HAGIBIS HIT THE COUNTRY ON SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER. THE SUPER-TYPHOON HAS ALREADY CLAIMED 40 LIVES.
ON MONDAY, MR. YAGINUMA, 49, A THIRD-GENERATION OWNER OF AN AUTO BODY SHOP IN FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, WAS CLEANING OUT THE WRECKAGE FROM TYPHOON HAGIBIS, WHICH BATTERED JAPAN OVER THE WEEKEND AND KILLED MORE THAN 70 PEOPLE. THE TYPHOON HAD BROUGHT RECORD-SETTING RAINS THAT CAUSED A LEVEE TO BREAK ON A NEARBY RIVER, UNLEASHING FLOODWATERS THAT FILLED THE FIRST FLOOR OF HIS BUILDING, DESTROYING EVERYTHING.
RECOVERY EFFORTS BEGIN IN JAPAN AFTER TYPHOON HAGIBIS
RAIN DISASTER WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT IN JAPAN AS TYPHOON HAGIBIS BARRELS TOWARD THE CAPITAL, TOKYO. HIGH WINDS CAUSED ONE DEATH BEFORE THE CATEGORY 5 STORM MADE LANDFALL. METEOROLOGISTS SAY HAGIBIS COULD BE THE WORST TYPHOON IN MORE THAN 60 YEARS.
WITH TYPHOON HAGIBIS CAUSING DESTRUCTION AND LOSS OF LIFE IN JAPAN, UN SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTóNIO GUTERRES HAS PRAISED THE LEADERSHIP ROLE THE COUNTRY IS PLAYING IN CLIMATE RESILIENCE, AND ITS 「EXTENSIVE AND EFFICIENT PREPARATION FOR THIS LATEST EXTREME WEATHER EVENT」.
A TV NEWS REPORTER WHO BROADCAST FROM THE MIDDLE OF JAPAN"S DESTRUCTIVE TYPHOON HAGIBIS THAT HAS KILLED AT LEAST 35 PEOPLE HAS BEEN BRANDED AN IDIOT.
THIS TIME, THE GOVERNMENT IS EMPLOYING COUNTERMEASURES IN ADVANCE TO HIGHLIGHT ITS PREPAREDNESS FOR TYPHOON HAGIBIS, THE 19TH TYPHOON THIS YEAR.
USA V TONGA AND WALES V URUGUAY ALSO GET GREEN LIGHT, BUT NAMIBIA V CANADA IN KAMAISHI IS CANCELLED AFTER TYPHOON HAGIBIS.
IT IS A TESTAMENT TO HAGIBIS POWER THAT JAPAN, THE THIRD-MOST TYPHOON-PRONE COUNTRY IN ASIA, WHICH SEES ON AVERAGE 11 TYPHOONS APPROACHING AND TWO DIRECT HITS EVERY YEAR, IS TAKING OUTSIZED PREPARATIONS FOR THE STORM. NOT ONLY IS HAGIBIS THE STRONGEST TYPHOON OF THE SEASON, IT IS ENORMOUS, MEANS THE WIND AND THE RAINS WILL ARRIVE EARLIER THAN THE STORM AND LAST LONGER THAN OTHER TYPHOONS, AS JAPAN"S NATIONAL BROADCASTER NHK REPORTED.

 

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