Tokyo and surrounding areas brace for a powerful typhoon forecast as the worst in six decades, with streets and trains stations unusually quiet as rain poured over the city. By yurikageyama.
A street at center of city is empty as Typhoon Hagibis approaches in Tokyo Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. Tokyo and surrounding areas braced for a powerful typhoon forecast as the worst in six decades, with streets and trains stations unusually quiet Saturday as rain poured over the city.
Typhoon Hagibis, closing in from the Pacific, is expected to bring up to 80 centimeters of rain in the Tokyo area, including Chiba to the north that had suffered power outages from a typhoon that hit last month, and some buildings remained partly repaired. The typhoon that hit the Tokyo region in 1958 left more than 1,200 people dead and a half-million houses flooded.
Hagibis, which means “speed” in Filipino, was advancing north-northwestward with maximum sustained winds of 162 kilometers per hour, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. It was expected to make landfall near Tokyo later Saturday and then pass out to sea eastward.
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