4 Dead, 6,000 Stranded At Tokyo’s Narita Airport As Record Rain Flood Japan

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by:
Ka l
Sexto

At
least
fou
people
have
died
i
easte
Japa
as
heavy
ai
flooded
oads,
cut
powe
a d
left
thousa ds
of
t avele s
st a ded
ove ight
at
Tokyo’s
Na ita
ai po t,
autho ities
said
F iday.

Mo e
tha
36
ce timete s
(14
i ches)
of
ai
fell
i
24
hou s
i
pa ts
of
Chiba
p efectu e,
which
bo de s
Tokyo,
t igge i g
la dslide
wa i gs
a d
powe
outages
fo
ea ly
25,000
households.

Japa
faci g
‘u p ecede ted’
ai
du i g
busy
holiday
week

The
dow pou
st uck
du i g
o e
of
Japa ‘s
busiest
holiday
weeks,
p ompti g
the
Japa
Meteo ological
Age cy
(JMA)
to
issue
its
highest-level
heavy
ai
wa i g
fo
the
egio
fo
the
fi st
time.

A
JMA
official
o
Thu sday
said
this
was
“shapi g
up
to
be
a
u p ecede ted
level
of
heavy
ai .”

“This
case
was
a
ext emely
u usual
situatio ,
eve
​by
Japa ‘s
histo ical
weathe
sta da ds,”
Chiba
Gove o
Toshihito
Kumagai
told
epo te s
ea ly
F iday.
“I
have
espo ded
to
ma y
disaste s
i
the
past,
but
⁠I
​have
eve
expe ie ced
a
case
like
this.”

The
Chiba
P efectu e
Disaste
Ma ageme t
Office
said
those
co fi med
deaths
i cluded
a
ma
i
his
60s
o
70s
fou d
o
a
flooded
oad
a d
a
66-yea -old
woma
fou d
i
he
subme ged
ca .

A
thi d
victim
was
a
ma
of
u k ow
age
fou d
collapsed
i
the
st eet,
a d
a
fou th
was
a
pe so
whose
age
a d
ge de
have
ot
bee
dete mi ed,
AFP
epo ted.
A
fifth
pe so
is
fea ed
dead
a d
a
sixth
emai s
u accou ted
fo .
Soldie s
have
bee
deployed
to
help
with
elief
effo ts.

Thousa ds
st a ded
at
Na ita
ai po t

Mo e
tha
6,000
people
we e
st a ded
ove ight
at
Na ita,
o e
of
Tokyo’s
two
majo
i te atio al
ai po ts.
Ma y
t ai
se vices
to
a d
f om
the
ai po t
we e
also
ca celed
i to
F iday
afte oo .

“I
eve
thought
I’d
spe d
the
ight
at
the
ai po t
but
it
is
what
it
is
a d
we
a e
lea i g,”
a
t avele
told
Japa ese
public
b oadcaste
NHK.
“We’ e
eve
goi g
to
fo get
this
t ip.”

Hu d eds
mo e
we e
st a ded
at
Chiba
statio
afte
t ai
se vices
we e
suspe ded.
Seve al
people
spe t
the
ight
i
shelte s.
NHK
footage
also
showed
ca s
subme ged
up
to
thei
headlights
i
Kashiwa
city.

Majo
highways
i
Chiba,
i cludi g
outes
co ecti g
Na ita
to
ce t al
Tokyo,
emai ed
closed
F iday,
acco di g
to
highway
ope ato
NEXCO
East,
fo ci g
d ive s
o to
alte ate
outes.
Some
t ai
se vices
co ecti g
Na ita
to
Tokyo
had
esumed
ea ly
F iday.

A
ai po t
spokespe so
said
all
flights
we e
scheduled
to
ope ate
o mally,
a d
Japa
Ai li es
said
some
delays
we e
possible,
but
o
ca cellatio s
we e
expected.

The
level-5
heavy
ai
wa i gs
issued
Thu sday
we e
dow g aded
to
level
4
by
F iday
mo i g.

Scie tists
wa
that
huma -d ive
climate
cha ge
is
maki g
ext eme
weathe
eve ts
mo e
f eque t
a d
i te se.

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