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Thereafter measures for prevention, emergency relief, and recovery were linked interactively under a system that ensured a planned and comprehensive approach to disaster countermeasures. The enactment of the Forest Conservation and Flood Control Urgent Measures Law in March was followed by the planned implementation of flood control measures and other projects designed to enhance Japan's ability to defend against disasters.
In June a decision was reached to observe a "Disaster Prevention Day" each year on September 1 as a means of disseminating disaster prevention knowledge and raising public awareness. These efforts have dramatically reduced the number of people who die or become missing as a result of natural disasters. The declining trend is still continuing, and the number has fallen to between and per year in recent years.
Road and rail access to Kansai International Airport KIX , the offshore airport where he is technical department manager, was cut off after a tanker crashed into the bridge linking it to the mainland. The bridge was not the only casualty. High waves whipped up by the kph winds had overtopped the sea wall, flooding one of the two terminals and the baggage claim area, and knocking out the electricity.
Okuda and his team camped out in their offices, determined to get the airport running again as fast as possible. After achieving partial reopening on September 7, they restored full service by September 21, just 17 days after the typhoon hit. Once again, tens of thousands of domestic and international passengers are now using the airport on a daily basis.
Even for a country famous for bouncing back fast, this was a remarkable feat. Okuda attributes the rapid recovery to two factors: first, deep internal expertise and second, broad external collaboration. Okuda himself has worked at KIX since before its opening, meaning that he and the airport staff know the facility and its equipment so well that they could assess the damage and figure out remedies quickly.
The government also provided support sending 10 pump trucks to remove water from the runway. Other Japanese airports lent special sweeper vehicles to clear the runways of rubbish and donated replacement valves for the under-apron plane-refueling system.
That gave me tremendous confidence. With the airport up and running at full capacity again, Okuda is now focused on devising strategies to reinforce its long-term resilience against future extreme weather events. Solutions under consideration include raising the height of the seawall, isolating key electrical equipment behind submarine doors and barriers, and acquiring more pumps.
Learn more. Now that global warming is causing ever more extreme weather events, artificial islands are not the only places at increased flood risk. In the traditionally temperate UK, for instance, the government listed flooding as a major threat for the first time in the edition of National Risk Register for Civil Emergencies. And with good reason.
In both cases, thousands of homes were flooded.
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