Japan hit by Typhoon Nanmadol

Along the coast, in the south-east of Japan, in the prefecture of Kochi, the sea was raging: the waves, immense, were several meters high. The roofs were torn off, the trees uprooted, the roads flooded. Residents were seeing the damage after typhoon Nanmadol hit on Monday, September 19. In a games room, the windows did not resist the power of the winds. Gusts that reached 234 km / h when the typhoon arrived.

Faced with the danger, the authorities had ordered the evacuation of nearly six million people. “I came to take shelter, because it was windy and I thought it was dangerous. They said it was a particularly big typhoon, I didn’t feel safe at home”, says a resident. The toll is one dead and dozens injured. The precautions taken by the authorities certainly made it possible to avoid more victims.