Japanese Typhoon latest: Tiger Lillies saved.

In America they call it a hurricane, in Australia they call it a cyclone but here in Japan they name it typhoon and deal with it in a very Japanese way. The fact is that this is a severe storm weather system with wind speeds that literally take your breath away. People die in events such as these, this is a serious situation. Perfect then for the Japanese as they love to take things seriously when seriousness is called for.

The first place to start being serious is on the television and immediately there is a threat such as this the graphs and maps start appearing on the screen. As the storm makes landfall everyone needs to know where it is and where it is going to. Consequently a map appears in the bottom right of the news marking out the progress of the typhoon.

The white dot is the eye of the storm and the red area around it is the circling fast winds and rain. As you watch the programming slowly the storm moves your way and the noise outside starts to increase in volume. Pictures start to come in showing what is going on in the outside world.

Looking out beyond our window the whole city is enveloped with the typhoon and the wind is now battering everything.

HMiL remains unconcerned.

She has brought the tiger lillies in for safe keeping so nothing to worry about.

The man on the telly speaks of flooding, extensive damage and delays on the trains. HMiL believes that is scandalous. "One small typhoon and the trains are delayed. What are they doing? This is not very good at all."

We can see that the coast is getting a battering but then that is what the coast is for.

Tokyo is about to see the brunt of it all. We go to bed, it will all be over in the morning. Yawn.

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