Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’

Re:Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ by 1125 on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:31PM (#15437214)

The caption of the last image says: "Visitors can tour the system, which cost $2 billion and was completed in 2006." I hope that's just a typo.

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Re:Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ by klodolph on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:37PM (#15437258)

What part do you hope is a typo?

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Re:Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ by sp332 on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:54PM (#15437373)

Tokyo has a GDP of $1.6 trillion per year. And they have a lot of expensive property they want to protect from flooding.

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Re:Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ by CognitiveLens on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:38PM (#15437268)

Quick lookup of other sources all state figures between US$2billion and US$3 billion

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Re:Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ by sxates on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:40PM (#15437280)

I initially read that as the tour costing $2 billion. Seems a bit steep!

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Re:Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ by segmondy on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:43PM (#15437297)

Is it? How much have the recent floods experienced in the Americas cost?

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Re:Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ by arjie on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:45PM (#15437316)

What is honestly going on in this comment section? First guy is confused by a perfectly good caption saying that the facility cost $2 billion to build and was completed in 2006. And second guy said he somehow thought that meant that taking a tour costs $2 billion (which would be obviously expensive just for a tour). And you have somehow misinterpreted the comment about the tour to be saying that the facility is expensive.

Come on, guys. Read before you comment. Jesus.

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Re:Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ by twic on Monday October 09, 2017 @04:50PM (#15437349)

I assume the second person was joking. I have no idea what the first person was concerned about, unfortunately.

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Re:Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ by mholt on Monday October 09, 2017 @05:14PM (#15437522)

Yeah I wouldn't want to pay $2 billion for a tour.

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