18 die, thousands uprooted by typhoon
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Typhoon Nabi headed north Sept. 7 over the Sea of Japan toward Hokkaido after leaving at least 18 dead, nine missing, 113 injured and thousands displaced in western Japan.
By Sept. 6, local governments in affected areas had ordered some 115,000 people to evacuate their homes, and advised roughly 242,000 others to do so. In addition, more than 40,000 people had left their homes voluntarily.
The typhoon had winds of up to 90 kilometers-per-hour at its center. Parts of Miyazaki Prefecture received more than 1,300 millimeters of rain since Sept. 4.
A section of the Sanyo Expressway in Yamaguchi Prefecture collapsed and two homes were crushed by the ensuing landslide.
In Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, two wooden supports of the five-arched Kintaikyo Bridge were washed away. The bridge was first built in 1673 and had been lost in floods twice, in 1674 and in 1950. A renovation costing some ¥2.6 billion was completed in 2004.
The deluge, however, boosted water levels at the Sameura Dam reservoir in Shikoku to 100 percent capacity Sept. 6. The region had suffered a drought, and reservoir levels had hit zero twice. (Kyodo)
台風14号で18人が死亡
大型の台風14号の影響で、少なくとも18人が死亡し、9人が行方不明となっている。
Shukan ST: Sept. 16, 2005
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