Japanese firm invents ‘flood-resistant’ floating properties

A Japanese housing improvement firm, ‘Ichijo Komuten’, has invented a home which begins floating as quickly as the extent of water will increase.

Firefighters transport stranded residents on a ship in a highway flooded by heavy rain in western Japan. (File Photo: Reuters)

A Japanese housing improvement firm, ‘Ichijo Komuten’, has invented a floating home which the corporate claims will assist to resolve the issues of flood-prone international locations.

The home’s construction is exclusive as a result of it’s waterproof, the corporate stated, including that as quickly as the extent of water will increase, the home begins floating.

In an interview with a US tv channel, the corporate stated, “The house looks like a normal house, but when the water started filling up around it, the house slowly started leaving the ground and rising upwards.”

The firm additionally demonstrated the floating home for most of the people, News18 reported.

Meanwhile, the corporate stated, “The home is related by thick iron rods. It is related to the bottom by thick cables, which launch the home upwards when floods happen and affix it again to the bottom as quickly because the flood is over. As the water will get much less the home touches the bottom. Electric issues have been put in upwards, in order that water doesn’t attain there. The home can float at a peak of as much as 5 meters.”

Japan has lengthy been conditioned to organize for earthquakes, nevertheless it additionally experiences heavy flooding brought on by torrential rains and typhoons, which results in destruction and lack of lives.

On the opposite hand, Assam has additionally witnessed probably the most devastating floods this 12 months, with the dying toll attributable to floods and landslides now going as much as 139 throughout the state. The disaster first hit the state on April 6 this 12 months.

Cachar is the worst-hit district with over 8.62 lakh folks struggling, adopted by Barpeta the place practically 5.73 lakh persons are reeling and over 5.16 lakh folks being hit in Nagaon. Meanwhile, hundreds of flood-affected victims in Silchar city continued to stay in misery for the ninth consecutive day on Tuesday with acute shortage of ingesting water, lack of aid materials and with out electrical energy provide. Most of the areas within the city of the Southern Assam district proceed to stay submerged below waist to knee-deep water.