Originally Posted by
CPH-Flyer
I know I am looking at a fairly small area of central Tokyo by what I can see from my 14th floor home. But I was actually surprised that we did not get more rain based on the warnings that were issued. I need to see if I can find a rain gauge for this area and get an actual statistic for how much rain we actually got yesterday. I have seen worse.
The rainfall was erratic, not like a big blanket of rain covering everything equally. You might see quite a difference between places just over 10km apart.
The worst part of this storm was the heavy rain in the mountains (Hakone got over one
meter of rain in a 48 hour period), which caused the associated rivers to swell, which caused rivers to overflow their banks in 14 areas, and caused three breaks in the embankments. That's what has caused the majority of death associated with this storm thus far.