I was looking forward to a nice typhoon to come through here and clean out the air a little bit, but it did the same things these damn storms always do! It gets within 500 km of the Kyoto/Osaka corridor and makes a 90 degree turn out of the way.... *sigh*

Almost Hurricane Chris (rather large image), thanks to thirdbase. NOAA is prediciting that it'll hit hurricane status by Friday ( Read more... )

CNN.com - Tropical Storm Chris heads for Leeward Islands

Looks like I'm heading straight for Florida, too. Go Cat-5!

Because I promised tryslora....

From watching the news, it looks like the typhoon has hit everywhere in western Japan except Kansai. It's weird, like the thing just kind of bent around the area. We have an intermittent breeze and some broken clouds, but that's about it ( Read more... )

I'm really far from the water.

Extremely powerful Typhoon No. 14 moves closer to KyushuIt's plotted to come straight up the west coast of the country, and will probably hit the Kyoto area sometime tomorrow. From my experience, though, all we'll get here will be some higher than normal wind and more rain. Nothing too drastic..... Kyoto seems to ( Read more... )

From Scientific American in 2001 - Drowning New Orleans

It was in the October 2001 issue, though, so unless it was the work of possible terrorists, I guess no one was interested.


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