Mr. Ota, who farmed 11 hectares of rice paddies, said nearly half were flooded.
Once seen, his apocalyptic visions — of deserted megalopolises, gigantic dams in dizzying mountain settings, and abandoned cities, half destroyed, flooded or disintegrating and disappearing beneath the slow-motion onslaught of forest and vegetation — are not easily forgotten.
Some studies found as many as half the flooded homes contained mold, and fear rose that relief workers, as well as residents, were not adequately protecting themselves against breathing in its particles.
"In the first half, Ireland flooded that backfield coverage and we couldn't really apply pressure as easily as they did with us.
When the second-half flood came the Bath centre tackled himself to a standstill.
Some of the designs were certainly creative: one Stygian proposal was to half-flood the tunnels and transport passengers by gondola.In the absence of a single overarching solution, TfL is planning several smaller measures.
The storm flooded half the city and crippled transportation.
But last year a pipe broke when she wasn't around, and half the house flooded.
But as the hurricane ripped through the region, seawater flooded half the city, and crippled the PATH station at Hoboken Terminal.
The debris blocked the river, creating a lake 30 feet deep that flooded half of the town by 1 a.m. and sent residents fleeing to upper floors of buildings.
