07 09 2004

Tue, 07 Sep 2004

Latest typhoon

Another typhoon went through this morning. My apartment's pretty new and sturdy, so the seals on the doors and windows held and nothing got wet. OT told me that water was blowing into his apartment.

He's a report from someone on the Kumamoto international mailing list:

At about 2 PM I went to my work place (Kumamoto Gakuen University)
because I heard that the power was still on there. The traffic lights
were out at many intersections along the way and I saw several power
lines that had been blown down.

To see if I could find any more information I took a look at the
Kyushu Denryoku (Kyushu Power Co.) web site. They report that as of 4
PM there are 820,700 homes without power in the Kyushu area. Kumamoto
has 364,000 of these. It has been the hardest hit by far of any of the
prefectures this time. Kagoshima is next with 122,500 and Fukuoka
follows with 120,500. These are just the numbers of households so many
more people are without power. In fact, though I'm not sure there may
be close to a million people without power in Kumamoto Prefecture
alone (if a typical household has two or three people).