Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Batten down the hatches
There is a rather large typhoon heading our way at the moment. Excitable media types are calling it a "once in a decade" storm. It is due to slam, yes slam, into Tokyo tomorrow morning, Japan time, before accelerating northwards. Here in Muroran we should be spared the worst of it, but further east in that enchanted land they call 'Doutou', they are expected to take a bit of a battering. In my three years living out there pretty much every autumn was marked by school closures, flooding, and blackouts as late season typhoons hurtled their way through east Hokkaido. No such luck for Cian though; it will be a wet and windy walk to Mizumoto elementary school in the morning.
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