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Emergency workers in Japan after Typhoon Nanmadol

Deadly typhoon strikes Japan as hurricane leaves Puerto Rico without power

A man was found dead in his car in Japan early today.

TWO CATASTROPHIC WEATHER events have taken place on opposite sides of the world as a tropical storm slammed into south-western Japan yesterday, leaving one person dead and another missing,  while the US territory of Puerto Rico is devastated by Hurricane Fiona.

Residential streets were flooded in Japan with muddy water from rivers, and swathes of homes lost power after Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall in the Kyushu region on Sunday then weakened to a tropical storm.

A man was found dead early today in his car that had sunk in water on a farm, said Yoshiharu Maeda, a city hall official in charge of disasters at Miyakonojo, Miyazaki prefecture.

Separately, one person was missing after a cottage was caught in a landslide, according to a Miyazaki prefectural official.

Nanmadol has sustained winds blowing at 110 kph and gusts up to 160kph, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Tens of thousands of people spent the night at gymnasiums and other facilities in a precautionary evacuation of vulnerable homes.

More than 60 people were injured, including those who fell down in the rain or were hit by shards of glass, according to Japanese media reports.

Torrential winds smashed signboards. A construction crane snapped in Kagoshima city, south-western Japan.

PR A man stands in front of a beach in Puerto Rico before the arrival of the storm Alejandro Granadillo / AP Alejandro Granadillo / AP / AP

In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Fiona struck the Caribbean island’s  south-west coast yesterday as it unleashed landslides, knocked the power grid out and ripped up asphalt from roads and flung the pieces around.

Forecasters said the storm would cause catastrophic flooding and threatened to dump “historic” levels of rain, with up to 64cm possible in isolated areas.

“I urge people to stay in their homes,” said William Miranda Torres, mayor of the northern town of Caguas, where at least one large landslide was reported, with water rushing down a big slab of broken asphalt and into a gully.

The storm also washed away a bridge in the central mountain town of Utuado that police say was installed by the National Guard after Hurricane Maria hit in 2017.

Fiona hit about 25km south-southeast of Mayaguez with maximum sustained winds of 140 kph, according to the US National Hurricane Centre.

It was moving to the north-west at 15 kph.

 US President Joe Biden declared a state of emergency in the US territory as the eye of the storm approached the island’s south-west corner.

Fiona was forecast to swipe the Dominican Republic today and then northern Haiti and the Turks and Caicos Islands with the threat of heavy rain.

It could threaten the far southern end of the Bahamas tomorrow.

In Japan, Nanmadol is forecast to continue dumping rain on its north-easterly path over Japan’s main island of Honshu, before moving over Tokyo and then north-eastern Japan.

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    Jul 29th 2017, 9:52 AM

    Still use my nano for runs and the gym , it’s great.

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    Jul 29th 2017, 9:47 AM

    We had the classic iPod, then our daughter got the nano5 and our son the nano7. His has broken since, but hers still works.
    Would be nice to have an mp3 player not reliant on the internet to give kids to let them have music in their bedroom….tjat did not have a camera, text messaging, etc. In other words, can we have separate devices for each activity? Oh wait….we used to have it that way…..

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    Jul 29th 2017, 12:57 PM

    @Seeking Truth: I bought my daughter a low tech stereo system and CDs! She loves that the radio never buffers!!!

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    Jul 29th 2017, 5:04 PM

    @Deborah Behan: she has a CD player and can listen to the radio on her iPod nano. But Spotify makes things tricky!! Looking at a Sonos wireless speaker that runs from an app anywhere in the house so the device can stay downstairs but they are fairly spendy!!!

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    Still have me 2gb nano and 80gb iPod 2nd edition and they are still going strong!

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    I still use my 120gb iPod. Long may it last !

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    I wish I had any iPod

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    Jul 29th 2017, 11:12 AM

    I won an iPod nano 4th gen in college in 2004. I wasn’t into music really turn so I gave it to my sister who was. A few years later she gave it back when she got a phone that could store music. I used it for podcasts and music then. In 2010 I got an iPod touch 4th gen and used that instead. A couple years ago I gave the iPod nano back to my sister and she uses it for music in her car. It’s a great little device.

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    What’s a Walkman ??? :) I’m still hauling a record player around with a long extension lead :)

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    I have the first Generation IPod, took great care of it and think I even have the original box for it.I’m hoping it will be worth something in the future

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    Jul 29th 2017, 10:57 PM

    @Melina Roberts: It probably will be. Apple recalled them a few years back due to battery issues and replaced them with a newer version (the small square thing whose button always breaks). If the screen wasn’t broken we wouldn’t of sent ours away. It was the original classic design.

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    Jul 29th 2017, 10:20 AM

    Pity…
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    Jul 30th 2017, 12:02 PM

    @Alan Scott: I got a nano 9 years ago and still works fine. Worth every cent!

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    I had a 5th gen Nano about 10 years ago. It was a perfect piece of kit and had I not lost it it would probably still be my preferred way to listen to music.

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    I had a 160gb iPod classic and have an iPod touch but never use it now. I use Spotify on my phone as my main source of music these days.

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    Jul 29th 2017, 6:00 PM

    I waited for the first generation iPod touch. I still have it (though for a time I thought I lost it and got a 4th or 5th generation iPod touch and found the 1st generation one a few days later.)

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    never liked apple devices

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    I have a one of those iPod classics U2 edition jobbys somewhere in the house, never even been used as I can’t find it. I’m sure that it is a great little device when it turns up! : O

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    My neck’s killing me carting this boombox about.

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