A bit windy out there

[yanpa]

Typhoon No. 17 on course for Tokyo:

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[BigInJapan]

Down here in Fukuoka, it seems like this one is passing us by.
Unlike the last one which just about blew us off the map...

[Coligny]

Dat'shit is heading straight for meee...

But lucky it's already 950hpa...

[Taro Toporific]

it seems like this one is passing us by...

Nothing much happening in Tokyo yet, but video of Okinawa looks fun...

[FG Lurker]

Pissing rain here in Osaka but not much wind to speak of.

I got stuck on the island at the cottage for the last one as the ferries all stopped running. Considering the size of the waves and amount of wind I wouldn't have wanted to be on one of those landing barge ferries anyway...

[Coligny]

Pissing rain here... traffic jam packed... (not much to do in the countryside sooo... weeeeeee typhoon driving YAY !!!!)

NO UNIMOGS YET

ah repeat

NO UNIMOGS...

[FG Lurker]

Rain has gotten heavier here and the wind has started to pick up too. Nothing like the last storm though, thankful for that!

[yanpa]

We were out "hiking" in the Chichibu area and managed to get reasonably drenched between emerging from the woods and reaching the nearest station.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Things are just starting to kick in here on the east side of Tokyo. Though nothing too serious yet.

[Mike Oxlong]

This is what it was like yesterday.

[legion]

Things are just starting to kick in here on the east side of Tokyo. Though nothing too serious yet.

same here on the west side, wind is howling but no bangs or crashes yet

[Dreamy_Peach]

I just hope World War III or the implosion of the western world never happens during a typhoon hitting Japan. We would never hear about it.

[FG Lurker]

It's done with Osaka, we send it on to those in Tokyo with best wishes.

[Coligny]

Toyohashi... foreplay time and already lost power...
There goes my fuel stock...

[legion]

bangs and crashes have begun on the west side of edo but as yet the river is not looking scary

[Coligny]

Power is back... typhoon supposed to be near... but really not much going on...
it's the second time that we lose power in my street and maybe few other blocks, without any real big shit hitting the fan. Time to go file a complain at the local chubu denryoku office...

[Coligny]

power re-gone

[Coligny]

power re-back

I really need to punch someone right nao...

[matsuki]

For a cuntry with so many typhoons, why does Japan always seem so ill prepared when they hit? My neighborhood was a fucking disaster zone last night.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

With all due respect, there are limits to how much preparation can go into approaching a disaster...if we could prepare well, then we wouldn't have disasters.

[yanpa]

For a cuntry with so many typhoons, why does Japan always seem so ill prepared when they hit? My neighborhood was a fucking disaster zone last night.

Disaster zone? In what way? I ask 'cos I'm not so far from you and the most disastrous thing I've seen are some dead umbrellas and an abandoned mamachari lying on its side with one wheel partially sticking out into the public road.

[matsuki]

For a cuntry with so many typhoons, why does Japan always seem so ill prepared when they hit? My neighborhood was a fucking disaster zone last night.

Disaster zone? In what way? I ask 'cos I'm not so far from you and the most disastrous thing I've seen are some dead umbrellas and an abandoned mamachari lying on its side with one wheel partially sticking out into the public road.

Bikes, potted plants, (plants minus the pots), basically just all kinds of debris all over the place. (much of which could easily be avoided) The wind in that particular area always seems worse than the wind closer to Shinjuku. Even when it snows, there is nothing left at my office in Nakano the same day but the snow lingers for up to a week each time around my apartment.

[Coligny]

With all due respect, there are limits to how much preparation can go into approaching a disaster...if we could prepare well, then we wouldn't have disasters.

Yeah...
But normal problem approach is:
It happens every years, we should factor it in the urban planning and disaster prep (buying unimogs for example)

and japanese approach seems:
It happens every years, so shoganai (powerlines... river that at least once a year overflow their bed, and on and on)

[matsuki]

With all due respect, there are limits to how much preparation can go into approaching a disaster...if we could prepare well, then we wouldn't have disasters.

japanese approach seems:
It happens every years, so shoganai (powerlines... river that at least once a year overflow their bed, and on and on)

THIS...just wait til the next big earthquake. The Tokyo death toll is going to be insane. I just hope I'm not at a Donkiiiii when it happens. (though I guess being stranded with schoolgirls, booze, and whole lot of cosplay costumes wouldn't be the worst) Seriously though, the disaster prep in Tokyo is shoganai'd to fucked status.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

How much better prepared can you get than shoganai? It's the prison rape scenario...you know it's coming, there aint gonna be no lube, you don't know when it's gonna come but you're staying close enough to bite the pillow to allow you to quietly endure the pain once it has come....

[matsuki]

How much better prepared can you get than shoganai? It's the prison rape scenario...you know it's coming, there aint gonna be no lube, you don't know when it's gonna come but you're staying close enough to bite the pillow to allow you to quietly endure the pain once it has come....

I was referring to all the building codes and earthquake safety laws that passed yet never get enforced. This cuntry seems to have the biggest problem (in so many ways) with doing shit the looks good on the surface but is useless when it comes to actually having to perform.

[yanpa]

How much better prepared can you get than shoganai? It's the prison rape scenario...you know it's coming, there aint gonna be no lube, you don't know when it's gonna come but you're staying close enough to bite the pillow to allow you to quietly endure the pain once it has come....

I was referring to all the building codes and earthquake safety laws that passed yet never get enforced. This cuntry seems to have the biggest problem (in so many ways) with doing shit the looks good on the surface but is useless when it comes to actually having to perform.

Here's something to reassure you on that front

Unsafe as houses

Ever since the March 2011 earthquake, Tokyo has been reassessing its disaster preparedness policies with mixed results. Though the residents of the city have definitely become more knowledgeable about their vulnerability and what needs to be done to save as many lives as possible in the event of a major quake, not much, in fact, has been done, owing mainly to the usual issues involving private property versus public responsibility. Tens of thousands of old wooden houses, packed tightly together in some neighborhoods, are basically kindling for the inevitable conflagrations that will start after an earthquake hits. Since the local government doesn’t feel it can force these people to move or rebuild their houses (which would, in accordance with zoning laws that have gone into effect since they were originally built, force them to construct smaller abodes then they already occupy) their dire prediction falls on deaf ears. Libertarians and individuals with fond feelings about Tokyo’s uniquely quaint neighborhoods condemn any sort of regulatory move that would change the character of those neighborhoods, but it’s clear that these neighborhoods, as well as the people who live in them, won’t survive a big quake. They didn’t survive the 1923 quake, and the situation isn’t really that much different.

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I was referring to all the building codes and earthquake safety laws that passed yet never get enforced.

Sure they do...how many tens of thousands of desk jockeys and other hangers-on are these keeping in employment? While they may not be working with regards to buildings or earthquake safety, those things were always incidental from the start. Why do something when you can be seen to be doing something?

[matsuki]

How much better prepared can you get than shoganai? It's the prison rape scenario...you know it's coming, there aint gonna be no lube, you don't know when it's gonna come but you're staying close enough to bite the pillow to allow you to quietly endure the pain once it has come....

I was referring to all the building codes and earthquake safety laws that passed yet never get enforced. This cuntry seems to have the biggest problem (in so many ways) with doing shit the looks good on the surface but is useless when it comes to actually having to perform.

Here's something to reassure you on that front

Unsafe as houses

Ever since the March 2011 earthquake, Tokyo has been reassessing its disaster preparedness policies with mixed results. Though the residents of the city have definitely become more knowledgeable about their vulnerability and what needs to be done to save as many lives as possible in the event of a major quake, not much, in fact, has been done, owing mainly to the usual issues involving private property versus public responsibility. Tens of thousands of old wooden houses, packed tightly together in some neighborhoods, are basically kindling for the inevitable conflagrations that will start after an earthquake hits. Since the local government doesn’t feel it can force these people to move or rebuild their houses (which would, in accordance with zoning laws that have gone into effect since they were originally built, force them to construct smaller abodes then they already occupy) their dire prediction falls on deaf ears. Libertarians and individuals with fond feelings about Tokyo’s uniquely quaint neighborhoods condemn any sort of regulatory move that would change the character of those neighborhoods, but it’s clear that these neighborhoods, as well as the people who live in them, won’t survive a big quake. They didn’t survive the 1923 quake, and the situation isn’t really that much different.

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Haha, I just read that before I posted but I am getting sick of Japanese telling me the reason why Japanese homes are "superior" is because they are soooooo earthquake safe. Drinkin' the Green Tea flavored Kool-Aid much?

[yanpa]

Haha, I just read that before I posted but I am getting sick of Japanese telling me the reason why Japanese homes are "superior" is because they are soooooo earthquake safe. Drinkin' the Green Tea flavored Kool-Aid much?

Well, I'd say most structures are comparatively earthquake safe (unless they're older houses which have been "typhoon-proofed" with heavy roof tiles a la Kobe). But does anyone go on to claim they're fireproof as well?