Word: typhoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disaster Plan. In Tokyo, a foreigner in his underwear leaped from a cab, rushed into a Red Cross office, handed the rest of his clothing to a startled clerk along with a note in English stating "For typhoon relief," dashed...
Howling in from the Pacific, Typhoon Vera last week smashed Japan with winds up to 135 m.p.h. The industrial city of Nagoya (pop. 1,300,000) was plunged into darkness, water rose in the streets, and the collapse of an apartment building pinned 84 in the wreckage. Eighteen miles south at Handa (pop. 68,000), gale winds and high seas crashed a 1,000-ton ship against the sea wall, and the raging ocean burst through, sweeping away 250 homes. In central Japan, rain-choked streams surged over their banks, and 85 bodies were taken from the raging Nagara River...
Japan. It was typhoon season again, and the latest, called Georgia, smashed into central Honshu 150 miles southwest of Tokyo, cutting diagonally across the island before disappearing into the Sea of Japan. Flood waters and landslides destroyed bridges, blocked roads, isolating many communities. At least 139 died, 107 were missing and 1,000 injured...
...attention. Onstage, as the restless bunting snapped and waved, a troop of comedians and singers was putting on a special children's show, and the audience giggled and roared. But some among the parents began to notice black clouds massing in the sky, and remembered that a typhoon had been reported offshore that very morning. The performers sensed the danger, too, for they began to race through their acts. Seconds later, the heavens opened...
...either fired or the company went bankrupt; when he tried to be a peddler, no one would buy his combs and bits of ribbon; he had failed as a vendor of hot potatoes. If people were catching cold. Kawamura sneezed before anyone else; if there was a typhoon, flood or fire, Kawamura's few possessions were the first to be destroyed. "Why does everything happen to me?" he moaned...