Typhoon Halong has struck the Izu Islands — a beautiful island chain south of Tokyo — with record-breaking, extreme, and violent winds of 197 km/h. It further wrought the damage that progressed to evacuations, emergency power cuts, and preemptive warnings. The Japan Meteorological Association (JMA) issued a rare and extreme heavy rain caution, and for good reason. Rain of such proportions was and still is the direct cause of flooding, and extinguished and buried the roads over landslides that isolated communities.
Once the Typhoon was in the area, local councils, seeing the danger, backed offers for people to shelter in evacuation centers. Rain in this region and area gets to and is encouraged to exceed a cumulative Pot Rain, so for it thusly exceed the 600 mm precip in drastically under 24 hrs is record achieving, and damage to and for the records.
The winds and storm thus managed the damage per preemptive and avoid the and control of the people and vehicles and their to(p) and to road and thus allowed for their pylons and trees and the roads and dust from and rescushing to the storm and flooding over hide and under the roads. Assistance is reaching residents and emergency crews are filling gaps in accessibility. Rescuing, the Japan Coast Guard and Self-Defense Forces perform deliver and food, water, and medical supplies.
Authorities state the risk is high for secondary disasters like mudslides and flooding, even though Typhoon Halong is weakening. They encourage residents to avoid travel and stay vigilant until unstable conditions improve. Apart from the Izu Islands, the storm is affecting Tokyo and the Kanto region, due to heavy rainbands, and is causing even greater concern.
Typhoon Halong is one of the most powerful to hit Japan, and overly powerful tropical systems are predicted to impact the western Pacific because of climate change. Initial assessment of Japan’s newly gained destruction is beginning. Again, local communities are being challenged for their resilience and the local government for their quick promised recovery, delivering their pledged government support to the communities.
Typhoon Halong’s devastation reminds us of the monumentality of nature’s power and the invaluable need for ongoing disaster preparedness during this era of erratic and severe weather conditions.
