The Japanese mayor who was laughed at for building a huge sea wall

[JezzyCalm]

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If this is true, pwede pa ba kha ta ani karon? please check readers sa iya validity...


The huge sea wall and floodgates took 12 years to build and had been widely regarded as a £20million folly. But today one former Japanese mayor is being hailed as a saviour after the grandiose construction allowed his small town escaped the devastation wrought by the March 11 tsunami.

In the rubble of Japan's northeast coast, Fudai stands as tall as ever after. No homes were swept away. In fact, they barely got wet.

The 3,000 residents owe their lives to the late Kotaku Wamura, who lived through an earlier tsunami and made it a priority of his four-decade tenure as mayor to defend his people from the next one.

The 51-foot-high gate, which was criticised as being a wasteful public works project in the 1970s, protected the town from the tsunami
The floodgate project was criticized as wasteful in the 1970s. But the gate and an equally high seawall behind the community's adjacent fishing port protected Fudai from the waves that obliterated so many other towns.

Read more: The Japanese mayor who was laughed at for building a huge sea wall - until his village was left almost untouched by tsunami | Mail Online
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[brian joshua]

di ni pwede sa ato kay ngano man?
pangutan-a lang si Pnoy the Abnoy

[JezzyCalm]

wa guro tay funds... or basin kulang....

[jackdi]

It maybe strongly criticized sa una, pero actually, karon, daghan sa Japan ang naay Tsunami Walls / Flood Gates.
Labi na ang mga companies nga naa sa shipyard, naa jud ani karon.
Mutingog na gani na ang siren, mosaka na dayon ang flood gates / tsunami walls.

[brian joshua]

wa guro tay funds... or basin kulang....

kana nga wall would take up 11 billion php approximate. kaya kaayo na ni napoles ui.

[Andruid80]

Pwede kaayo ni kung ang current government nato pariha ug pangutok sa mga hapon... nga unta nag huna2x sa ilang mga katawhan dili kay ila gi huna2x pirmi ug asa sila maka kwarta..

[JezzyCalm]

kaya jud ni Napoles.. iapil pod nato ang PDAF sa mga senators.. and oh!... pati pod ila 25M nga xmas bonus..

[brian joshua]

pero as of this moment, wa man gani tay sakto nga amount sa vessels
like fast ships and planes para mu carga sa mga relief operations. kani pa kaha?

should it be considered in the near future as a plan, it will only remain as is.

[<SMILE>]

As always it is always worthed investing on general safety.

[JezzyCalm]

please politicians...