Typhoon Haishen heads to South Korea after battering southern Japan

The storm slammed Okinawa and other islands over the weekend with heavy rain, rough waves and high tides

The second powerful typhoon to slam Japan in a week damaged buildings, caused blackouts in nearly half a million homes and injured 20 people on southern Japanese islands before heading to South Korea on Monday. Traffic in southern Japan was still paralyzed even after the typhoon passed. Bullet trains were suspended and most domestic flights in and out of southwestern Japanese airports were cancelled Monday.

The Japan Meteorological Agency warned strong winds and torrential rain would continue even after the typhoon moved north. By Monday morning, Haishen, which means “sea god” in Chinese, was near the southeastern coast of South Korea packing sustained winds of up to 144 kmph (89 mph). The storm slammed Okinawa and other islands over the weekend with heavy rain, rough waves and high tides.

The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least 20 people, including two seriously, were injured in several southern prefectures. As of Monday morning, about half a million homes were still out of power. Haishen is the second typhoon in less than two weeks to take a similar path through southern Japan and the Korean Peninsula. Typhoon Maysak last week injured dozens of people and damaged homes and other buildings..

Typhoon Hagibis leaves as many as 33 dead as Japan continues rescue

One woman fell to her death as she was being placed inside a rescue helicopter

Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were deployed across Japan to rescue people stranded in flooded homes Sunday, as the death toll from a ferocious typhoon climbed to as high as 33. One woman fell to her death as she was being placed inside a rescue helicopter. Typhoon Hagibis made landfall south of Tokyo on Saturday evening and battered central and northern Japan with torrents of rain and powerful gusts of wind. The typhoon was downgraded to a tropical storm on Sunday.

Public broadcaster NHK said 14 rivers across the nation had flooded, some spilling out in more than one spot. The Tokyo Fire Department said a woman in her 70s was accidentally dropped 40 meters (131 feet) to the ground while being transported into a rescue helicopter in Iwaki city in Fukushima prefecture, a northern area devastated by the typhoon.

Department officials held a news conference to apologize, bowing deeply and long, according to Japanese custom, and acknowledged the woman had not been strapped in properly. The government’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency, which tends to be conservative in its counts, said late Sunday that 14 people died, 11 were missing and 187 were injured as a result of the typhoon. It said 1,283 homes were flooded and 517 were damaged, partially or totally.

Japanese media tallies were higher. Kyodo News agency reported that 33 people died and 19 were missing. “The major typhoon has caused immense damage far and wide in eastern Japan,” government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters.

News footage showed a rescue helicopter hovering in a flooded area in Nagano prefecture where an embankment of the Chikuma River broke, and streams of water were continuing to spread over residential areas…

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Rs 58.6-cr damage in AP as Cyclone Fani ruins crops, uproots 10,000 trees

Agriculture and horticulture crops in 958 acres were destroyed in Srikakulam district and over 10,000 coconut trees uprooted

Violent wind Fani, which hit Odisha Friday, activated substantial rains in waterfront areas of Andhra Pradesh other than evacuating 10,000 coconut trees and crushing farming and cultivation crops, authorities said Saturday.

The cyclonic fani made harm the tune of Rs 58.61 crore in AP, fundamentally in Srikakulam area flanking Odisha, even as regularity has nearly been reestablished in a little more than 24 hours, they said. All the 218 mobile phone towers that were harmed in the tempest have been reestablished Saturday morning while control supply to 659 out of 733 towns has likewise been reestablished, the State Real-Time Governance Center said in a discharge.

State Chief Secretary L V Subrahmanyam, amid a videoconference with Union Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha, said 304 houses endured harm while there were no casualties. Agriculture and agriculture crops in 958 sections of land were wrecked in Srikakulam area and more than 10,000 coconut trees evacuated. In bordering Vizianagaram area, banana plantations in 229 sections of land were harmed.

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“Upwards of 274,000 individuals in 145 beach front towns in Srikakulam area were influenced by Fani however there has been no casualty.We have opened 139 help camps in the region where 15,460 people were being sheltered. In Vizianagaram, 2,000 individuals were moved to 15 alleviation camps,” the Chief Secretary said Subrahmanyam said rebuilding works identified with provincial drinking water supply, streets and structures and city divisions were being done on a war-balance to reestablish total regularity….