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"Tokyo Prepares for a Once-in-200-Year Flood to Top Sandy"

Postby yanpa » Sat Jun 01, 2013 10:30 am

Bloomberg wrote:Tokyo Prepares for a Once-in-200-Year Flood to Top Sandy
By Chris Cooper & Kiyotaka Matsuda - May 31, 2013 5:47 PM GMT+0900

Tokyo, the world’s most populated metropolis, is building defenses for the possibility of a flood in the next 200 years that could dwarf the damage superstorm Sandy wrought on the U.S. East Coast.

Japan’s capital, flanked by rivers to the east and west, as well as running through it, faces 33 trillion yen ($322 billion) in damages should the banks break on the Arakawa River that bisects Tokyo, according to government estimates. That’s more than five times the $60.2 billion aid package for Sandy that slammed into the U.S. northeast last October.

“Japan hasn’t prepared enough,” said Toru Sueoka, president of the Japanese Geotechnical Society, an organization of engineers, consultants and researchers. “Weather patterns have changed and we are getting unusual conditions. We need upgrades or else our cities won’t be able to cope with floods.”

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Postby Russell » Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:14 am

Well, for Noah it worked...
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Postby matsuki » Sat Jun 01, 2013 4:36 pm

More concrete lined rivers??
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Postby Coligny » Sat Jun 01, 2013 5:08 pm

chokonen888 wrote:More concrete lined rivers??


Taro's gunna have such a boner that he'll need a Topol M for shopping...

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Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Sat Jun 01, 2013 5:09 pm

chokonen888 wrote:More concrete lined rivers??


Um, there's nowhere left to concrete on the rivers, so it'll have to be concrete-lined concrete.
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Postby yanpa » Sat Jun 01, 2013 5:14 pm

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:
chokonen888 wrote:More concrete lined rivers??


Um, there's nowhere left to concrete on the rivers, so it'll have to be concrete-lined concrete.

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Postby matsuki » Sun Jun 02, 2013 1:02 am

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:
chokonen888 wrote:More concrete lined rivers??


Um, there's nowhere left to concrete on the rivers, so it'll have to be concrete-lined concrete.


Don't be silly...they'll pay the construction companies to make new rivers and line them :wall:
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Postby yanpa » Sun Jun 02, 2013 5:12 am

You might be kind of right there - the "rivers" being a vast series of underground pipes and storage basins like this one here which I went past yesterday.
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Postby Russell » Sun Jun 02, 2013 8:49 am

Looks like a bunker to launch missiles from...
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Postby Coligny » Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:42 am

Hum... Nope...

Really not....

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Postby Taro Toporific » Sun Jun 02, 2013 1:03 pm

Coligny wrote:Hum... Nope...
Really not....
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Ah a photo of home sweet home...

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Postby Coligny » Sun Jun 02, 2013 1:52 pm

You're been in Japan for too long when:

These kind of coincidence coming from Taro don't surprise you anymore...

(Also 100km away in Wyoming seems to barely bring you to your neighbourg next door...)
(They got Nissan dealership there ? Pretty sure the Ford Bronco is the official ride of the state...)
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Postby Russell » Sun Jun 02, 2013 2:01 pm

Coligny wrote:(Also 100km away in Wyoming seems to barely bring you to your neighbor next door...)

Unless, they receive a nuclear counter attack, that is...
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Postby Coligny » Sun Jun 02, 2013 3:06 pm

Yeah... Will sumbody think of the tumbleweed...
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Postby matsuki » Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:46 pm

Taro Toporific wrote:
Coligny wrote:Hum... Nope...
Really not....
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Ah a photo of home sweet home...

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You still own that mofo?
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Postby yanpa » Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:50 pm

chokonen888 wrote:
Taro Toporific wrote:
Coligny wrote:Hum... Nope...
Really not....
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Ah a photo of home sweet home...

Peacekeeper Missile Silo.jpg


You still own that mofo?


A real man is never without his own nuclear deterrent.
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