Yahoo — More than a million people in central Japan were urged to evacuate Tuesday as a powerful typhoon approached, triggering floods that left two people missing.
Public broadcaster NHK said about 1.3 million people have been ordered or advised to leave their homes, including 80,000 people in Nagoya.
Heavy rains as the storm approached caused floods and road damage in dozens of locations in Nagoya and several other cities, the Aichi prefectural (state) government said.
Television footage showed Nagoya residents wading through water up to their knees. In parts of the city near swollen rivers, rescue workers helped residents evacuate in rubber boats.
Police in nearby Gifu prefecture said a 9-year-old boy and an 84-year-old man were missing after apparently falling into swollen rivers.
Seriously, can Japan get a break yet or what? Earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding, it's like New York over there. But when do they just decide it was a bad investment building all that shit on an island out in the Pacific Ocean and just move on? Time to just pack up whatever buildings you can and move to the main land. I mean if I'm a kid growing up over there and I somehow made it through all this shit, I'm on the first gondola out of that place. I'd row that shit over to Hawaii, that island seems to have it's shit together. I mean if you're gonna be an island at least know how to do it.
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