Some more shots along the Tama River today. Playing around with black and white.
Sunday Nov 30, 2008
Sunday Oct 26, 2008
Went for a walk along the Tama River today. Found some baseball games with amazing little kids, a big party with great music and lots of drunk people, and some shacks providing shelter for the homeless. Everyone was very friendly. The shacks moved me the most. Here's the mix.
Sunday Sep 09, 2007
Well, as fast as the
Tama river swelled, it's now dying back down. I'd say it
has about five feet to go before getting back to normal based on the
two top pics, and you can see the flood plains at the bottom drying out
quite nicely. Although, sadly, the lower right image usually has a row of
shacks built by homeless, and I'm sure they will be re-built in no time.
Saturday Sep 08, 2007
Here are some not-so-great pics because all I had was my cell phone,
but this is the Tama River near where we live. It's swollen to probably
about three times its normal size from the typhoon that whipped through
here yesterday directly from the Pacific Ocean. Usually, these storms
come up from the south and hit many islands before getting to the
mainland
of Japan itself. That's what people tell me, anyway.
This river has very large overflow areas (not sure what they are called) on both sides that are used for playing fields and parks before you get to millions of people in housing and industrial areas on both sides. You can see part of that area in that top pic on the left ... the half flooded green area is what I'm talking about. Most of that area in the other three images is totally under fast moving water. It's a good idea to have these areas if you have typhoons around, I guess, eh? The population density here is truly unbelievable, so I can't imagine this amount of water flowing through the streets -- which are just a few feet away in some areas. Had this typhoon been stronger, it could have been quit horrible around here. It was already pretty bad for some people on this river -- Two dead as typhoon crashes into Japan.
This river has very large overflow areas (not sure what they are called) on both sides that are used for playing fields and parks before you get to millions of people in housing and industrial areas on both sides. You can see part of that area in that top pic on the left ... the half flooded green area is what I'm talking about. Most of that area in the other three images is totally under fast moving water. It's a good idea to have these areas if you have typhoons around, I guess, eh? The population density here is truly unbelievable, so I can't imagine this amount of water flowing through the streets -- which are just a few feet away in some areas. Had this typhoon been stronger, it could have been quit horrible around here. It was already pretty bad for some people on this river -- Two dead as typhoon crashes into Japan.
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