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posted by martyb on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the take-a-cold-bath dept.

The Guardian reports:

An "unprecedented" heatwave in Japan has killed at least 65 people in one week, government officials have said, with the weather agency classifying the record-breaking weather as a natural disaster.

The deaths in the week to Sunday were due to heatstroke, while another 22,647 people were admitted to hospital, the Japanese fire and disaster management agency said.

[...] The agency said on Tuesday that 80 people had died from the heat since the beginning of the month, and more than 35,000 had been admitted to hospital.

[...] The city of Kumagaya set a national heat record on Monday, with temperatures hitting 41.1C (106F).

[...] The high temperatures follow record rainfall that caused floods and landslides in western and central Japan, killing more than 220 people.

[...] The extreme weather has revived concerns about the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, which will be held in July and August.


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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:08PM (7 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:08PM (#713266) Journal

    It seems like the gods have abandoned Japan, sometimes. Even the 'Zilla god. What was his name - oh, yeah, Godzilla. Japan has it's ass handed to it by Mother Nature pretty regularly. India makes the news, each monsoon season, along with Pakistan. Other countries have catastrophes now and then. Japan? Japan and disaster is like repetitive redundancy. That's not even considering Fukushima.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:16PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:16PM (#713277)

    "That's not even considering Fukushima."

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    Fukishima was not a disaster, Fukushima was the result of poor design practice ( motivated by greed ) creating a vulnerability that did not need to exist.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:28PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:28PM (#713290) Journal

      Errrr, uhhhh - maybe we have different definitions of disaster. When the Twin Towers fell in New York, that was a disaster, despite the fact that a number of people conspired to make it happen. A train wreck is a disaster, regardless whether the engineer screwed up, the tracks were substandard, or some damned fool intentionally derailed the plane.

      I'll go on calling Fukushima a disaster, even though we agree that the engineers and the bean counters jointly screwed things up.

      • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:36PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:36PM (#713401)

        "...derailed the plane"
        Yeah that would be a really weird disaster.

    • (Score: 2, Disagree) by bob_super on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:59PM (1 child)

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:59PM (#713309)

      > poor design practice ( motivated by greed ) creating a vulnerability that did not need to exist.

      We shall only build ocean-cooled nukes at least 300m above sea level, just in case a once-in-50000-years storm, or ice age, comes by.

      Everything in life is a trade-off. That doesn't mean the design is inherently bad.

      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @09:38PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @09:38PM (#713376)

        The tsunami that inundated Fukushima was NOT a "once per 50,000 year" event.

        Those in charge of planning took a risk when they chose the level of flood protection
        for the power plant, and they chose very poorly indeed.

        Hopefully you will soon die as a result of poor engineering, and whoever cares about you
        can inscribe "Close but no cigar" on your headstone. You. Stupid. Annoying. Prick.

    • (Score: 2) by leftover on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:56PM

      by leftover (2448) on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:56PM (#713413)

      AC: I think you might be thinking of "natural disaster". The unadorned "disaster" is a superset including all events resulting in widespread damage.

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  • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:14PM

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Thursday July 26 2018, @10:14PM (#713391) Journal

    Isn't that GodZillow ? The god of realtors and property managers everywhere ?

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