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kurogane wrote:Yeeks... stay safe if Fanfone hits.
One of the three U.S. airmen washed away to sea Sunday from their station post at Kadena Air Base in Japan has died.
The U.S. Air Force said the airman was pulled from the sea by the Japanese coast guard and pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The incident occurred at 3:45 p.m. Sunday as a strong typhoon bore down on the U.S. military base on the coast of Okinawa.
The other two remain missing, and “rough seas are complicating rescue efforts,” according to the base, which said it is jointly conducting the search with Japan’s coast guard.
All three names are being withheld until the Air Force can notify next of kin...
http://whnt.com/2014/10/05/u-s-airman-d ... ams-japan/
Hijinx wrote:That's a soggy beaver.
台風来たらNHKを見ろ - NHKのカメラマンは台風の時に本気出すスペシャリストエロカメラマンだ
---ホムセンライダーしのぶ (@sinobu6542) October 6, 2014
MOSCOW, October 4 (RIA Novosti), Ekaterina Blinova - Tepco, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, has revealed that the approaching typhoon could hit the damaged, decommissioned 40-year old nuclear power facility Fukushima No.1, which was severely affected during the earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
"The deluge would likely cause seawater to mingle with the radiation-tainted water accumulating in the basements of the reactor buildings at the six-unit plant, allowing 100 trillion becquerels of cesium to escape, according to an estimate that Tepco revealed Friday at a meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority," the Japan Times reports.
According to the media outlet, tidal waves from the storm are likely to reach a maximum height of 26.3 meters or more. The storm is likely to strike the Fukushima No.2 nuclear plant as well, but "its idled reactors and fuel pools" are not expected to be destroyed, Tepco officials assert.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has warned its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could be hit by tsunami as high as 26.3 meters.
The deluge would likely cause seawater to mingle with the radiation-tainted water accumulating in the basements of the reactor buildings at the six-unit plant, allowing 100 trillion becquerels of cesium to escape, according to an estimate that Tepco revealed Friday at a meeting of the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
Tepco said a tsunami of that size occurs once every 10,000 to 100,000 years.
dimwit wrote:Typhoons. Gotta love em.
Mike Oxlong wrote:Another weekend, another typhoon...
Super Typhoon Vongfong Turns Into 2014's Strongest Storm
An enormous storm in the Western Pacific rapidly strengthened overnight into the year's most powerful super typhoon.
Super Typhoon Vongfong reached sustained winds of 155 mph (250 klometers per hour) on Tuesday morning, with gusts of up to 190 mph (306 kilometers per hour), according to the U.S Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Satellite estimates from the Japan Meteorological Agency suggest the massive storm's central pressure dropped to 900 millibars, making it the most intense storm of any kind this year, according to The Weather Channel.
yanpa wrote:Mike Oxlong wrote:Another weekend, another typhoon...
Isn't bearing the brunt of typhoons Okinawa's raison d'etre? In the same way that Niigata exists primarily to absorb Siberian snow before it gets dumped on Tokyo?
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