Typhoon!

[unforth]

Well, despite the news reports I saw yesterday implying that the storm would start at about 6 AM yesterday, and get really going around 6 PM, today was largely storm free. Oh, it was gray and ominous and really windy and every once and a while a downpour would start and stop, but it wasn't until about an hour to an hour and a half ago that things really got going. It's been raining hard, and the wind has been setting my windows to rattling in a distinctly unsettling way. Apparently, this is Typhoon Fitow (thanks, schenker28) and according to more recent news reports the worst of it will hit at...3 AM. When I intend to be fast asleep. Sigh. I was so hoping to actually get to, you know, experience my first Typhoon in some fashion. Anyway, it's only a category one (74-95 mph winds) and will diminish rapidly once it makes land fall and so far as I can tell no one seems to be particularly concerned about it. I should probably check if I'm supposed to bring my plants in, I guess...no, no one else on my block seems to have done so. Whatever, I guess.

So yeah. This typhoon thing doesn't seem too scary. :) I'll admit, noticing the wind speed, I'm slightly more concerned than I was before typing this, but whatever. ;) For more, take a look at this tracking image - Tokyo is right on the south eastern edge of the part of Japan getting hit directly! Go us, or something. :)

Edit: Okay, seriously, this picture is much cooler. Or at least it is right now, when it shows us in the 100% chance of tropical storm winds range. ;) This page, in general, has much more info. And the news makes it look much scarier than it actually seems to be. Then again, the folks they are showing at JR Shinjuku station don't seem to care. :)

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[ultimabaka.livejournal.com]

I checked out the weather.com report on Fitow last night, and all I could see was a gigantic purple thing off the coastline...it literally looked like it was half as big as the country $. My coworkers were talking about it, mostly making fun of one of the group who's flying into Tokyo sometime next week $

Good thing this thing didn't hit Brooklyn, lest the subways be flooded to hell and I never get to work ... that happens enough when it's only a gentle drizzle as it is :\
-- Gerardo