Typhoon Double Act Performing in Japan

[yakinoumiso]

http://www.jma.go.jp/JMA_HP/en/typh/typh.0422.html

Yup, I'd say the 22nd typhoon of the season has just run aground. Winds in Izu have picked up pretty impressively over the last hour, and the lights have already started flickering. Too bad there is no ice cream in the freezer that'll need eating when the power is off.

I'll try get some snaps up on my blog (http://blogs.salon.com/0001433) soon. Uhh, then again maybe not, seeing how I just watched part of someones house blowing down the street.

On second thought, I think I'll just hide under my desk until tomorrow!

[Mulboyne]

The typhoon is making news in the UK too, albeit from a slightly different set of priorities:
UK Independent: Teams take shelter as typhoon hits circuit

As Typhoon 22 headed on a collision course with Suzuka yesterday, race officials met to discuss closure of the track today in the face of extreme weather warnings, and how to form the grid for tomorrow's Japanese Grand Prix after official qualifying had to be cancelled.

After a day of continual rain saw Michael Schumacher, Giancarlo Fisichella and Kimi Raikkonen set the fastest practice times, officials had to decide the best way to handle a unique situation. When Typhoon 21 blew through Suzuka a few weeks ago it left the first and second corners under water.

With Typhoon 22 now upgraded to "super" status, and 100kph (62mph) winds expected to hit the track at noon today, rendering qualifying impossible, they took the only viable option. The track will be closed to the public today, on safety grounds, and everything has been battened down in preparation.

"We're all stocking up with sandwiches and Alpen bars and booking the Log Cabin for lunch tomorrow," the BAR team principal, David Richards, joked, referring to a popular night spot near the circuit hotel.

...The only time in the history of the world championship in which a race has been postponed was at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium in 1985, after a newly laid track surface began breaking up.

UK Telegraph: Washout fears as typhoon looms

Organisers instructed vendors to bolt anything that moved to the floor; the principal issue is safety; of the public as well as the participants.

Mindful that 45 people have already lost their lives this year in a country battered weekly by extreme weather, the authorities are reluctant to expose 100,000 fans to a super typhoon.

The mighty Ma-On sent rain ahead of it yesterday, affording the teams only a cursory acquaintance with the track during practice.

Even on a good day Suzuka presents a grim vista. A prince among circuits it may be, but surrounding it is a bleak industrial landscape.

[Taro Toporific]

[gomichild]

It just took me 5 and a half hours to get from Shimokitazawa back to Hiratsuka. Still lots of flooded places here - and numerous mud splattered abandoned broken down cars along the road.

Thank goodness I choose Odakyu over Tokaido line - at least I made it as far as Chogo before my darling hubby rescued me...

[cstaylor]

Went outside to "batten down the hatches" (tie down a shutter that had flown loose in the wind). Coming from California, I've never seen wind and rain like that... it was like a wall of water coming from all sides.

[kamome]

I stayed in all day and kept warm and dry. Ran outside right after the rain stopped to pick up a pizza. A day spent being completely lazy.

[Steve Bildermann]

I stayed in all day and kept warm and dry. Ran outside right after the rain stopped to pick up a pizza. A day spent being completely lazy.

What a wastrel. Next thing you'll be telling us is that you're going to leave Japan....

[deltaco]

eom

[dimwit]

Went outside to "batten down the hatches" (tie down a shutter that had flown loose in the wind). Coming from California, I've never seen wind and rain like that... it was like a wall of water coming from all sides.

It is hard for me to sympathize. We have been hammered by six typhoons out in west Japan this year.

[cstaylor]

Went outside to "batten down the hatches" (tie down a shutter that had flown loose in the wind). Coming from California, I've never seen wind and rain like that... it was like a wall of water coming from all sides.

It is hard for me to sympathize. We have been hammered by six typhoons out in west Japan this year.

Oh I agree, I wasn't asking for sympathy, just pointing out a new experience I had.

[kamome]

I stayed in all day and kept warm and dry. Ran outside right after the rain stopped to pick up a pizza. A day spent being completely lazy.

What a wastrel. Next thing you'll be telling us is that you're going to leave Japan....

Wow, the man has ESP...

[Taro Toporific]

Here we go again....Typhoon Tokage!


Another powerful typhoon on course to strike Japanese islands
AFP News/ 19 October 2004 0833 hrs
TOKYO : A powerful typhoon was expected to hit parts of Japan this week on the heels of a storm that killed at least six people, the meteorological agency said.
Typhoon Tokage was located 390 kilometers (241 miles) southeast of Miyako island in the Pacific region and packing wind speeds of 144 kilometers (90 miles) per hour....
...Ma-on, the most powerful typhoon to hit eastern Japan in a decade, slammed into the Tokyo metropolitan area on October 9, leaving six people dead and three others missing and paralyzing the capital's transport systems. Just a week before Ma-on, Typhoon Meari wreaked havoc in the Japanese islands, leaving 22 dead, six missing and presumed dead, and 89 injured in floods, landslides and other storm-triggered accidents.

[gomichild]

Aw...crap...

[yakinoumiso]

...well, I don't know about Japan saving the rest of East Asia from the White Menace during it's colonial period, but this year it kinda' looks like Japan is doing its best to save the rest of asia from the Typhoon Menace.

Now, if I can only find my Gore-tex britches...

[Maths Dude]

I lived in Nagoya for 5 years and we not once had a 'real' typhoon. ie one that actually blew strong wind, they always seemed to hit other parts of Japan. I always joked with my students that when I left a heap of typhoons would come. Seems its all come true! I am disappointed however. I love a good kick azz typhoon

[aquamarine]

Well isn't that just sassy. The good news for me in this case is that I won't have to walk to work in a typhoon again.... the bad news is that it's hitting on my freaking days off. 42 days of work in a row only to have rain on my days off. I'm not too happy.

[Big Booger]

Doreshi, we are notto, inna Tokkyo anymoa..

[aquamarine]

Lovely use though.

[dimwit]

Well it has been raining heavily here for about 12 straight hours and typhoon is heading directly toward central Shikoku and all my classes are cancelled (without pay) and my kindergarden age kid is at home with about six of his friends. Holiday you say!!! I am getting RIGHT PISSED OFF about now with all these typhoons.

[Big Booger]

I got off at 12:00 hehehe. Loving this. I wished we had more typhoons.

[Taro Toporific]

I got off at 12:00 hehehe. Loving this. I wished we had more typhoons.

I'm getting off early too, hee, hee...just in the nick of time.

2 dead, 6 missing as massive typhoon lands on Kochi
TOKYO Oct. 20 Kyodo -Massive Typhoon Tokage landed on Kochi Prefecture in western Japan on Wednesday after leaving two people dead, at least six missing and more than 30 injured as it raked the southwest while churning north. ...
As of 1 p.m., Tokage was moving north-northeast at 45 kph from the Tosashimizu area. It had an atmospheric pressure of 950 hectopascals, packing winds of up to 144 kph near its center.
A 31-year-old man was found dead Wednesday after a car he was driving fell into a river in the city of Miyazaki. A 24-year-old woman in Ehime Prefecture died after being buried by a landslide.
Among the missing are a man who fell into a flooded canal in Miyazaki Prefecture, two fishermen who were washed away by high waves from a port in Chiba Prefecture, a fisherman in Kochi Prefecture and a newspaper delivery man in Oita Prefecture......

[GomiGirl]

Yes we have all been let off early as well. Now I am off to my "other" job!!

BTW am back from holidays in Aus.. miss me?

[dimwit]

The wind here isn't that bad but we have had heavy rain more or less since 6:00 last night so there are going to be tons of landslides and flooding.

I watching on NHK and a bunch of dolts were out surfing in it. I say they should be forced to pay the inevitable costs of their rescue.

[Caustic Saint]

:P You sissies! :P

My school took a field trip today. Granted, we passed on the trip to the zoo in Chiba, but did head down Taro's way to go to the Yokohama Aquarium. (Sea Paradise, or whatever it's called.)

It never rained too much on the way there or back, but when I was walking home around 4:00 it really opened up. Thankfully I was about 10 feet from my building when it did. Gotta love a 3-minute commute!

[Big Booger]

My night class was just cancelled.. Tomorrow, the next one will hit. Have we offended the typhoon gods or what?

[amdg]

O.K. This one is a proper typhoon. Screaming harpies and all. One of my windows just got blown in, lucky I had a heavy curtain behind it to muffle the glass.

dateline - Kobe, 7.00 PM Wednessday night (huddled behind my computer in a windowless room)

Edit: Holy fuck! I was looking forward to a nice evening off work lazing in front of the TV/Computer, but I can't even hear my speakers above the wailing winds. No way to seal off my broken window, so I just closed up that room. We'll see what it looks like in the morning I guess. This one is not playing around.

Edit 2: Shit. There goes my garden. Just scooped up. Jeesus. Anyone else on line in Kobe right now?

[devicenull]

i loved that typhoon... #23 is the stick to match the next ones up to. when do we get #24?

[Mulboyne]

[IkemenTommy]

Sweet. I'm hoping to get to leave early from work again like the last time.

[Tsuru]

Sorry people, I negotiated a little cleanup of the country before my arrival