Typhoon Double Act Performing in Japan

[Mulboyne]

Interesting change in direction for Typhoon 18 (Songda) which has been battering Okinawa. If you check the Japan Meteorological Agency Site you'll see No.19 (Sarika) ready to make a tighter turn and hit Tokyo. Lovely.

[GridReaper]

Just great. First my parents get marathon-smacked down by Hurricane Frances in West Palm Beach over the weekend, now it looks like my wife might get hit with Typhoon 19 in Osaka (after she freaked out with that second earthquake).

Obviously Mother Nature is a pissed off right now, so everyone please head over to my place in Honolulu until everything chills out weather-wise. No Ice Ages either!

[Taro Toporific]

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Obviously Mother Nature is a pissed off right now...!

So just to recap--we've in the past three weeks we've had:
... an volcano eruption, two typhoons and third is on it's way, three earthquakes during the past 48 hours or so (2 of them over 7 on the Richter scale), and a tsunami or two (89 centimeters high hee, hee).
Sheeee-it. A MOTHER'S WORK IS NEVER DONE.

[gomichild]

So just to recap--we've in the past three weeks we've had:
... an volcano eruption, two typhoons and third is on it's way, three earthquakes during the past 48 hours or so (2 of them over 7 on the Richter scale), and a tsunami or two (89 centimeters high hee, hee).
Sheeee-it. A MOTHER'S WORK IS NEVER DONE.

Gee Taro when you put it like that....

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

[Taro Toporific]

So just to recap--we've in the past three weeks we've had:
... an volcano eruption, two typhoons and third is on it's way, three earthquakes during the past 48 hours or so (2 of them over 7 on the Richter scale), and a tsunami or two (89 centimeters high hee, hee).
Sheeee-it. A MOTHER'S WORK IS NEVER DONE.

Gee Taro when you put it like that....
ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

Oh how can I forget the CONTINUED record heat wave after 44 days straight of 30+C tempertures.
As I said before, "Why do people live here?"
(Why does an polar bear like me live here.)

[Big Booger]

How big was this morning's quake? It lasted shorter than the previous two... I thought I just had a bad case of Daikon gas.. LOL

[amdg]

It woke me up just in time to get to work. And it was better than a cup of coffee to get the old heart started.

3 big ones in an many days... has me a little nervous.

[AssKissinger]

Whoooahhhh! The winds a really howlin' where I'm at!

[amdg]

Wooah! The admin department said we could leave at 3pm today due to the approaching typhoon!!! I love you no. 18!

[AssKissinger]

I got the whole day off!!! I'm happy as Hell cause WORK SUCKS!!!

[Big Booger]

I got the whole day off!!! I'm happy as Hell cause WORK SUCKS!!!

me 2

[amdg]

Let me echo that sentiment!

WORK SUCKS!!!

[Taro Toporific]

Let me echo that sentiment!

WORK SUCKS!!!

WOTS "work"?

[amdg]

WOTS "work"?

Its anything you're doing when you're not drunk. Oh, wait a minute, sometimes when you are drunk too. Anyone got a better definition?

[Caustic Saint]

I got the whole day off!!!

me 2

Me 3!

Oh wait, I'm unemployed...

But I did have a job interview that went really well today. And to keep on typhoon topic, it's not too windy in Toshima-ku right now.

[AssKissinger]

Jeez, it feels like my windows are gonna blow in. Are you supposed to leave them a little cracked or close them all the way? I'm not so smart.

[Taro Toporific]

Jeez, it feels like my windows are gonna blow in. Are you supposed to leave them a little cracked or close them all the way? I'm not so smart.

For tornadoes, it's open a bit all around.
For ferro-concrete "mansions," I haven't the foggest.

For typhoons on the Rice Ranch in Shikoku it's not an issue. T he roof eves are open at the ends of the 80+ year old farm house, so we just slide the storm shutters closed and the breezes move through.

All three typhoons have hit the ranch so far without any real damage although our rice crop is looking like Crop Circles Gone Bad(tm).

[gaijinzilla]

I think you can leave one window a wee bit open. Just as long as it isn't one where the wind and rain are battering against.

[dimwit]

This typhoon was at least as windy as the last one, however I think it probably did less damage as anything that was about to fall over did so in last week. As for Shigenobu, I don't think that they got that much wind out there, so I imagine you'll be OK

[Taro Toporific]

[amdg]

[AssKissinger]

Wow! Less than a mile from my house a tree was felled and it landed right on top of some power lines. The power lines are stretched all the way to the ground but still they didn't snap or break off. And the rice fields around here are full of debris, big chunks of roof and stuff. I tell you, it was a blowin' yesterday!

[dimwit]

I feel sorry for all those sailors, getting caught in a storm like that, they are shit out of luck.

Who I don't feel sorry for at all are the old coots who in almost every typhoon find a "Darwin Award" Candidate way of dying.

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/

Example - Let's drive around on mountain roads in the middle of a typhoon looking for mudslides.

- Damn, that bamboo curtain I bought for 500 yen is blowing off my balcony, I better go outside and fix it.

- Honey, let's go down to the edge of the river to see what they mean when they say "FLOOD WARNING".

Yesterday, I witnessed the following pointless/dangerous activities from outside my restaurant window during the height of the typhoon; a shopkeeper washing the outside windows of her shop, a guy on a step ladder trying to fix a flimsy paper sign that was in the process of blowing away, and a woman watering her plants.

[AssKissinger]

Damn! It's blowin' again like a motherfucker! Got to go home early and a window blew out at city hall!

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8574&highlight=scary

[Taro Toporific]

I coots who in almost every typhoon find a "Darwin Award" Candidate way of dying.

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/

Example - Let's drive around on mountain roads in the middle of a typhoon looking for mudslides..... and a woman watering her plants.

WOT 'bout umbellas and the wet t-shirt contest?

[Taro Toporific]

see No.19 (Sarika) ready to make a tighter turn and hit Tokyo. Lovely.

OH NO Mulboyne, NOT AGAIN!

It's yet another fast right hook and !!!WHAMO!!! my rice ranch in Shikoku is getting hit again. Hey there's seems to be "Typhoon Act" Performing in Japan EVERY WEEKEND!

NHK's Morning News is saying this typhoon will have a lot more rain than the previous ones, sheesh.

See Nat'l Weather Agency for updates on how our 3-day weekend is gonna get ruined.

[Steve Bildermann]

Yep, it seems this sucker has a personal thing for me!

It is heading *DIRECTLY* over water and looks to be be making landfall in Nagoya Saturday not bothering with the usual drop off (and fuck em up)in Kyushu.

Jeeeesus was it something I said

[silverfall]

I regularly have Sunday and Monday off. If you go back and check the weather reports for the past ten weeks you will notice that on only one of those weeks was it sunny on my days off. I have had rain for the past two months! I think I pissed off a rain god or something. Maybe I should sacrifice a virgin or something to appease the gods and stop the DAMNED RAIN! What do you guys usually do on a rainy day? I've done just about everything I can think of and if this week is gonna rain too I want to not be bored.

[Steve Bildermann]

What do you guys usually do on a rainy day?

Well the wife stays at home when it rains so...

[Taro Toporific]

Yep, it seems this sucker has a personal thing for me!

Saddle up cowboy.

The Beast has a name...
Typhoon Ma-on moves north, may strike Honshu Saturday
Kyodo / Friday October 8, 3:55 AM
Powerful Typhoon Ma-on was moving north off Minamidaito Island in Okinawa Prefecture early Friday and may land on the nation's biggest main island of Honshu on Saturday....Ma-on, named after a mountain (horse saddle) in Hong Kong