Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Picture: Heavy Rain in Japan

A house leans perilously after being damaged during heavy rain in the Tokai region of central Japan has left one woman dead. A further 1.2million people were advised to evacuate after a record 246 millimetres of rain fell in three hours, last week. Authorities dispatched about 100 soldiers to the hardest-hit city, Okazaki, to rescue the stranded from flooded homes. Some areas were left without power or telephone service hours after the storms and several rivers overflowed, forcing drivers to abandon their cars in the streets.

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