I wanted to post a picture of the amazing amount of rain we got in Hakkaido last night. But I just couldn`t any good ones and since this really isn`t an international news site I don`t feel oblidged to post one right from last night. However, the above image I found while searching was too funny, although it is taken from a hurricane here in Hokkaido last year. It`s pretty self-explanatory.
If you think I`m posting from a bunker underneath the Board of Education, while they do have one, its actually sunny right now and is expected to get very hot this afternoon. In the end it rained about 20cm in 12 hours. In comparison, if anywhere in Alberta got that much rain, that quickly, all heck would break loose. Our streets would be rivers and sidewalks just puddles.
Now compare 20cm here to 90cm further down south in Kyushu. Their having some major problems there, lots of flooding in low lying areas, and some major land slides. The land slides would not be such a huge problem execpt that with Japan being such a populace and mountainy country, inevitably, the rocks, dirt and parts of road slam into houses. 18 people are still missing.
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