Tokyo is the next New Orleans

[Taro Toporific]

Madden-Julian oscillation over the Pacific 2005

Tokyo can expect a pounding from typhoons
Japan Today - Oct 20 ...as powerful by some measures as Katrina, Nabi left 32 dead or missing and flooded some 10,000 homes. No freak storm, it is a precursor of worse --- much worse --- to come, says Shukan Gendai (Sept 24). It won't be long, the magazine predicts, before Tokyo and Osaka emerge from typhoons looking like post-Katrina New Orleans...
.....what if Tokyo, with its rivers and underground concourses, had to bear the full brunt of a typhoon of comparable strength?
Worst-case scenarios focus on the Arakawa River and its embankment. Should the embankment collapse, Shukan Gendai's expert sources concur, low-lying areas of the city would soon be under 3-4 meters of water. Coursing through the subway system, it would spread throughout the city--- and what that could look like, at worst, was on full display in New Orleans late last month....more...

[oyajikun]

I knew my Pizza-La, Ebi raft purchase would pay off!

[kingdom]

I believe Japan (Tokyo) to be better prepared for it though.

[dimwit]

Massively unlikely that Tokyo or any other part of Japan would be damaged the way the Gulf Coast was. The mountainous terrain chews up typhoons long before their eyewalls ever get near Tokyo. While I am not familiar with flood control measures in Tokyo, I know in my little hamlet it would take extremely intense extremely long duration rainfall to come close to causing the rivers to overflow their banks.

[Buraku]

Japan doesn't get Typhoons

its well away from Tropical waters so doesn't get hit like Philippines, Cuba, US Gulf coast, Bangladesh and Taiwan
...sometimes they get the tail end of one, a weak Typhoon
but they don't get the hardcore stuff



The biggest doomsday threats to Japan are

1 big fucking Quakes
Japan is well perpared for Earthquakes, Japanese have much experience but sometimes they really fuck up
http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=4171
during the 95 quake, the foreign nations lined up to help Nippon in rescue efforts and disaster response while the J-gov allowed the people to burn for days. About 5,000 bodies were pulled from the Japan rubble others died from being burnt to death or starved.

2 Volcanic shit
thousands of Japanese were already burnt to death - Mount Asama, Raung Indonesia, Bandai-san Japan, Nyos in Cameroon, Kusatu-Shirane Japan, Miyake-Jima, Mt Saint Helens USA, Mount Etna Italy, Mt Fuji, Usu Japan, Sakura-jima...a lots of these big Volcano fuckers are in Japan waiting to explode

3 Wars and doomsday Terrorism
Remember the Ruskies getting ready to hit the Nippon mainland in WW2, Asahara's doomsday shit, or Uncle Sam bombing the shit out of Tokyo. One of the major flaws with Japan is its lack of land mass and population density ( far greater trouble than China )
as one report recently said N Korea will lose any war (along with S Korea and Japan) over 100 million people are living between Kobe/Osaka and Tokyo so all you need is one big missile


4 Nippon Stupidity
Building shitty Airpots in Kobe that are sinking back into the Ocean and costing billions, or stupid tunnels that are filling with massive debts and leaking water and constantly need repair - disater waiting to happen ? or what about reports of Japan reactors almost ready to go Chernobyl ?

5 Comets and Asteroids
They are the most destructive and deadly they could destroy everything not just Japan-land

but comets don't arrive very often - about one in every few thousand years so we are ok.
But these space-rock fuckers killed heaps of prehistoric creatures and the dinosaurs. Maybe NASA or the Ruskies will save us from the next one.

[IkemenTommy]

4 Nippon Stupidity

This is really what's going to be the biggest cause of Japan self-destruction and anihilation.

[Greji]

[Buraku]

Miyazaki's pretty far South and the weather can seem more tropical so they might get messed up a little bit
but I've never heard of a serious Hurricane ever hitting Japan, they are all weakened greatly by the time they hit Nippon, so no hardcore shit here

however of you live in Philippines, Cuba, US Gulf coast, Bangladesh.... its a totally different scale - REAL HARDCORE

[Taro Toporific]

... I know in my little hamlet it would take extremely intense extremely long duration rainfall to come close to causing the rivers to overflow their banks.

Dimwit lives down river from my rice ranch (see ya soon I'm coming for the fall harvest ). In 125 years, no typhoon has knocked down the ol' homestead which is 200 m from the river. However, my place is on a 500-year flood plane. Dimwit's place on the second floor but...in geologic-time that's tomorrow. Saaa.

[IkemenTommy]

The same goes for anyone who is considering living at places like Shiodome, Toyosu, and Urayasu area where they used to be the ocean before all the developments.

I was thinking about moving to one of the newer parts of Toyosu until I heard that it is floating on an manmade landfill.

[Greji]

"....so no hardcore shit here...."

"Typhoon Nabi hits southern Japan

Transport in the area has been severely affected
Southern Japan has been lashed by a powerful typhoon that triggered landslides and floods and killed at least four people.
More than 100,000 people were ordered to evacuate ahead of the storm, Typhoon Nabi, which brought winds of 126km/h (78mph), and up to 1.3m (51in) of rain.

The four dead were caught in two landslides in Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures on Kyushu island.

Local media said at least 16 other people were missing.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4215098.stm
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Well, I suppose that is not in your definition of hardcore. But it was only the latest one.[/url]

[Greji]

but I've never heard of a serious Hurricane ever hitting Japan, they are all weakened greatly by the time they hit Nippon, so no hardcore shit here

Buraku, who the hell are you trying to impress with your un-ending lack of knowledge of Japan and why?

I was referring to the most recent typhoon, because I had a vested interest in it. But to respond with "never heard of" as if this were the final word, is most fucking elitest statement I've heard in a bunch of efforts.

Do a simple search engine perusal. if you don't want to believe other people here. The Ise typhoon alone killed over 5,000 people, but maybe I am mistaken and that is not "hardcore"