Flooded Shinkansen

"East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) said Sunday that its Shinkansen train depot in Nagano was flooded after a dike of the Chikuma River burst in the Hoyasu district in Nagano."

Ouch...that looks like its going to be a pricey repair bill.

insurance will cover the damage.  The burning question is will there be cutback in service due to lack of spare trains available?  We all know how punctual jJpanense railways are.   

Toronto had a major flooding a year or two years ago.  The flooding was so severe that it almost flooded half of the section beneath railway tracks.  Two streetcars operators warned the supervisor that they may not be able to pass through that section.  The supervisor overrode the two operators' concern.  So they proceed and broke down immediately.   The flood water level kept on going up to the point it swallowed the streetcars. Luckiily all passengers were able to evacuate and nobody was hurt.  I can't say that for the two streetcars.  The flood essentially destroyed the streetcars.  They were sent back to the manufacturer (Bombardier) for a complete rebuilt.  After that incident.  A memo was sent out to all operators (including bus drivers) not to proceed if they see too much flooding.

LOL...Insurance Company's have Money Trees?

no but my car insurance rate kept on going up despite I have no accidents for years and I have the driver license to drive a bus.

Rates go up because all end up paying when the Insurance Company's pay

Oh yeah, insurance....

I live in “Dixie Alley”, which along with the US Central Plains, has the highest number of tornadoes in US. I also live 70 miles from the US central Gulf Coast, which means we get hurricanes too.

I’m going to refrain from telling the tl;dr story of dealing with Nationwide Insurance, who wrote me a new policy and dropped me a month later, right as we were going into prime tornado season a few years back.

But yeah, extreme weather + insurance + economically unfeasible home upgrades + local historic district regulations make for some fun times!

I digress....
Was this breach and flood related to the typhoon that hit Japan last week or was it just a structural failure? That’s a huge amount of rolling stock and rail infrastructure sitting under water. I imagine repairs are going to take quite a while.

Scary typhoon.

-plarnold

Some insurance policies do not cover natural disaster. The interior of the trains maybe ok. The doors are probably sealed tight like airplanes.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20191106_37/

Not a happy ending! JR East and JR West have deemed the 10 affected trains (8 E7 sets and 2 W7 sets) a total loss and all will be scrapped. A shame! They say the Hokuriku Shinkansen will be running normally by March of next year. Wonder how they will do that with 8 trains out of it.