Damage re Typhoon Lan.
Posted by 327hanna on 10/23/2017, 12:03 pm
Typhoon Lan damage: Shocking pictures of destroyed road as 4 die as Category 4 storm hits
THESE SHOCKING pictures of a destroyed road shows the scale of destruction caused when Typhoon Lan struck Japan, killing four people, on Monday.
By Alice Foster
PUBLISHED: 13:30, Mon, Oct 23, 2017 | UPDATED: 13:38, Mon, Oct 23, 2017
 
Typhoon Lan latest pictures as powerful storm leaves four dead
Mon, October 23, 2017



A powerful typhoon left four dead, two missing and dozens injured in Japan and is moving northward off the Pacific coast after millions struggled to the polls for a national election
 
A collapsed road is seen following torrential rain caused by typhoon Lan in Kishiwada

   Policemen remove leaves from a drain on a flooded road in Tokyo
   Water-covered road caused by heavy rains by Typhoon Lan is seen in Nagoya
   A truck splashes water under strong rain and wind generated by typhoon Lan in Tokyo
   A man crosses a street under strong wind and rain generated by typhoon Lan in Tokyo, Japan
   A woman have an umbrella turned inside out with strong wind in Tokyo
   A woman uses an umbrella to shield herself from strong wind generated by typhoon Lan in Tokyo, Japan

The precarious road dramatically collapsed in the midst of torrential rain and strong gales caused by Typhoon Lan in Kishiwada in the Japanese region of Osaka.  

A car was pictured veering off the side of the road as floodwater cascaded down the steep slope, sweeping away uprooted trees in its path.

Typhoon Lan made landfall west of Tokyo on Monday as a category 2 storm, setting off landslides and mass flooding as rivers burst their banks.



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Typhoon Lan damage: Shocking picture of destroyed road in Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan



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Typhoon Lan damage: Car stuck in floods on damaged road in Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan

Lan sideswiped Tokyo while smashing through Japan after powering north for days as an intense Category 4 storm.

At least four people were killed, including a man who was hit by falling scaffolding, a fisherman tending to his boat, and a young woman whose car had been washed away by floodwaters.

Another casualty was left comatose by injuries and a man was missing, NHK public television said. Around 130 others suffered minor injuries.



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Typhoon Lan damage: Dramatic rescue of a man from a holm by the Tamagawa river

One dramatic photograph showed a man being winched to safety after he and seven other people were stranded in a holm by the Tamagawa river.

Rivers burst their banks in several parts of Japan and fishing boats were tossed up on land. A container ship was stranded after being swept onto a harbour wall but all 19 crew members escaped injury.

By Monday afternoon the storm had been downgraded to a tropical depression and it was in the Pacific, east of the northernmost main island of Hokkaido, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.



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Typhoon Lan damage: Water-covered road caused by heavy rains by Typhoon Lan is seen in Nagoya, Japan

The photograph above shows a car ploughing through deep floodwater caused by Typhoon Lan in Nagoya, Japan, on Sunday just before the storm struck.

Some 80,000 people in Koriyama, a city 124 miles (200 km) north of Tokyo, were ordered to evacuate as a river neared the top of its banks, NHK said.

Several hundred houses in western Japan were flooded. "My grandchild lives over there. The house is fine, but the area is flooded, and they can't get out," one man told NHK.



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Typhoon Lan damage: High waves break on the shores of Senjojiki, Shirahama town, Wakayama prefecture

High waves caused by Typhoon Lan were also seen breaking on the shores of Senjojiki, Shirahama town, Wakayama prefecture, Japan, on Sunday.

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