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From: Sam	10/9/2017 2:03:58 PM
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Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ Japan has spent billions on an underground system to control water around the capital, but some fear that the city is vulnerable as global warming brings more extreme weather. By HIROKO TABUCHI OCT. 6, 2017 KASUKABE, Japan — The cavernous underground cisterns here north of Tokyo could hold the Statue of Liberty, a scale that underscores the site’s immense task: protecting the world’s most populous metropolis from flooding. Linked by tunnels that divert water away from the region’s most vulnerable floodplains, the $2 billion underground anti-flood system, completed in 2006, is an extraordinary example of the defenses that global cities are readying as they face an era of extreme weather brought on by climate change. In the United States, towns and cities battered by a string of devastating hurricanes are just starting to come to terms with what it could take to bolster their storm protections. Houston city officials have pleaded for state and federal funds to help build a new $400 million reservoir that could keep storm water from inundating downstream neighborhoods. “We’re preparing for flooding beyond anything we’ve seen,” said Kuniharu Abe, who heads up the underground site. “Until now, at least, we’ve been successful.” continues at nytimes.com [amazing photo of the caverns at the link; meanwhile places in the US that forbid even talking about CC will at some point in the future talk about how God is punishing people for sinful behavior.]

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