Typhoon Melora

so, i survived my first japanese typhoon. Typhoon Melora worked it's way through Nagoya, Osaka, and southern Honshu yesterday and last night. yesterday morning it was classified as a class 5 (or so i hear), so they actually called of classes a little less than 24hrs in advance. by about 11 that night it was already down to a class 2.

it was still raining pretty hard and had some nice wind. i think it was actually pretty cool, but probably just cause it was weaker. some of the natives were more worried, but i think i was more at ease because i knew that no tornadoes were going to randomly sprout out of it.

it stopped raining in the middle of the night , but then it picked up again a little heavier. there was lightning at that point too. but that was kind of cool too. by that morning it had completely broken up. we now have clear, blue skies and a nice cool wind. So much for class 5. but it did hit Osaka first, and the center passed right though there, so they may have had worse.

most people went drinking in their others' rooms. i just enjoyed the wind. the direction of the wind was such that our front walkway/balcony was soaked, but our back was completely dry. it was interesting.

i still find tornadoes more frightening, even if typhoons are technically more damaging. you can't really see tornadoes coming and waiting for them is nerve-racking. typhoons you can see literally for days, know where they'll hit, and have a pretty good idea of what you're in for when they get there.

Anyway, long story short: for anyone who may have been concerned, everyone over here is fine.

also, i'm gonna be doing some back-posting here. i'm going to be posting new things dated before this, because they happened before this, to keep things in perspective