6 dead, including women and children, as northern Japan buried in strenuous snow
six dead, including women and children, as northern Japan buried in strong snow
In eastern Hokkaido’s town of Nakashibetsu, a 40-year-old woman and her three teenage children were poisoned by car harass as their stopped vehicle was buried under a intense layer of snow. The family kept the car’s engine running while the harass pipe was blocked with snow. It took two hours for rescuers to get to the car.
In the same town, a 23-year-old woman froze to death after getting lost about three hundred meters from her car.
In Yubetsu, northwest of Nakashibetsu, a 53-year-old man saved his 9-year-old daughter at the expense of his own life. After their truck got stuck, the man and his daughter attempted to get to a safe place on foot, but got lost in strenuous snow. The further was covering his daughter with his assets when they were found. The man was pronounced dead in a hospital; the chick was only lightly injured.
This winter has reportedly brought twice as much snow as usual. Latest snowfall has added more than two meters of snow to accumulations that are already several-meters-thick in some places, Kyodo News reported. Many houses were totally buried, with snow over their rooftops.
Gusts of wind reached speeds of over thirty seven meters per 2nd (135 kph) on Saturday. The hard weather conditions have caused a number of traffic accidents.
The very first carriage of the high-speed Komachi train derailed in Akita prefecture on Honshu Island because of snow. None of the one hundred thirty passengers were gravely injured. The East Japan Railway company has suspended all high-speed train operations.
Russia’s Far East region has also been hit hard by the powerful snow cyclone presently ravaging Japan. The storm wind has left twelve settlements – over 120,000 people – without electric current. Residents have been advised to stay at home and not leave their houses except in an emergency.
All bulldozers and snowplows are busy clearing the roads opening up from Sakhalin Island’s main city of Yuzno-Sakhalinsk to the cities of Korsakov and Dolinsk. The local airport has been closed, and ferry service has been suspended inbetween Vanino port on the mainland and Kholmsk port on Sakhalin Island.
The cyclone has also hit the southern areas of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, bringing winds of up to forty five meters per 2nd. The local avalanche monitoring center has warned of avalanche danger around the mountains and famous Kamchatka volcanoes.
The cyclone is presently moving away from Sakhalin Island, towards the Kuril Islands.
6 dead, including women and children, as northern Japan buried in powerful snow
six dead, including women and children, as northern Japan buried in strong snow
In eastern Hokkaido’s town of Nakashibetsu, a 40-year-old woman and her three teenage children were poisoned by car harass as their stopped vehicle was buried under a strenuous layer of snow. The family kept the car’s engine running while the harass pipe was blocked with snow. It took two hours for rescuers to get to the car.
In the same town, a 23-year-old woman froze to death after getting lost about three hundred meters from her car.
In Yubetsu, northwest of Nakashibetsu, a 53-year-old man saved his 9-year-old daughter at the expense of his own life. After their truck got stuck, the man and his daughter attempted to get to a safe place on foot, but got lost in strenuous snow. The further was covering his daughter with his assets when they were found. The man was pronounced dead in a hospital; the woman was only lightly injured.
This winter has reportedly brought twice as much snow as usual. Latest snowfall has added more than two meters of snow to accumulations that are already several-meters-thick in some places, Kyodo News reported. Many houses were totally buried, with snow over their rooftops.
Gusts of wind reached speeds of over thirty seven meters per 2nd (135 kph) on Saturday. The hard weather conditions have caused a number of traffic accidents.
The very first carriage of the high-speed Komachi train derailed in Akita prefecture on Honshu Island because of snow. None of the one hundred thirty passengers were gravely injured. The East Japan Railway company has suspended all high-speed train operations.
Russia’s Far East region has also been hit hard by the powerful snow cyclone presently ravaging Japan. The storm wind has left twelve settlements – over 120,000 people – without electro-stimulation. Residents have been advised to stay at home and not leave their houses except in an emergency.
All bulldozers and snowplows are busy clearing the roads opening up from Sakhalin Island’s main city of Yuzno-Sakhalinsk to the cities of Korsakov and Dolinsk. The local airport has been closed, and ferry service has been suspended inbetween Vanino port on the mainland and Kholmsk port on Sakhalin Island.
The cyclone has also hit the southern areas of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, bringing winds of up to forty five meters per 2nd. The local avalanche monitoring center has warned of avalanche danger around the mountains and famous Kamchatka volcanoes.
The cyclone is presently moving away from Sakhalin Island, towards the Kuril Islands.