This is Japan being battered by winds of up to 144 kilometres-per-hour. Typhoon Haishen barrelled through the southern mainland, bringing powerful winds and drenching rain. It cut power to tens of thousands of homes and prompted authorities to call for some 1.8 million people to evacuate. But social distancing meant evacuation centres had their capacities […]
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Typhoon Haishen: 200,000 ordered to evacuate in Japan as storm approaches
September 6th, 2020 Awake Goy
Authorities in Japan have ordered at least 200,000 people to evacuate certain areas of the country due to an approaching storm. Typhoon Haishen, the second powerful typhoon to slam Japan in a week, unleashed fierce winds and rain on southern islands on Sunday, blowing off rooftops and leaving homes without power as it edged northward […]