Typhoon Melor

[tōkai devotee]

Thanks Chikara and Oyaji for your replies. So it looks like Inland Kyuushuu was fine. Perhaps my friends are just too busy to answer my calls and email.

Oyaji, I hope your sons will be ok soon.

"New" swine flu? Does that make it　 新新型インフルエンザ？

[Yudan Taiteki]

Thanks Chikara and Oyaji for your replies. So it looks like Inland Kyuushuu was fine. Perhaps my friends are just too busy to answer my calls and email.

Oyaji, I hope your sons will be ok soon.

"New" swine flu? Does that make it　 新新型インフルエンザ？

This one should be 真・新型インフルエンザ, then the next one is 絶・新型インフルエンザ.

[AJBryant]

The english name is Melor?

I thought that hurricanes were supposed to have female names?

Not for over a decade now. The women's libbers got all upset.

They alternate now.

[Harisenbon]

Not for over a decade now. The women's libbers got all upset.
They alternate now.

Wow, learn something new every day...
I also feel like I've been out of the country for way too long now... :/

[keatonatron]

Judging by the footage on the news last night (SBS) it was not a dud however they did say;

... The typhoon, while fierce, did not appear to have been as devastating as some had feared. ....

Japan hit by deadly typhoon

I recently went to a video shoot on location at the beach.

I said to my boss, "The map you drew for the shoot shows an outdoor toilet over there... but I don't see anything." to which he replied "Yeah, it was washed away by the typhoon"

Also, the pictures of the location showed lots of green plants and a wonderful lawn futher up the beach. I lowered the paper, and saw only sand and dirt. It was all ripped up by the typhoon, apparently. Those poor people that live right on the beach--I wonder if they go through this every time a typhoon comes through?

At the end of the day, when I was exhausted and filthy from wading through the water for hours, I was told that normally there is a hot shower available but, you guessed it, it too was taken out by the typhoon

[becki_kanou]

Judging by the footage on the news last night (SBS) it was not a dud however they did say;

... The typhoon, while fierce, did not appear to have been as devastating as some had feared. ....

Japan hit by deadly typhoon

I recently went to a video shoot on location at the beach.

I said to my boss, "The map you drew for the shoot shows an outdoor toilet over there... but I don't see anything." to which he replied "Yeah, it was washed away by the typhoon"

Also, the pictures of the location showed lots of green plants and a wonderful lawn futher up the beach. I lowered the paper, and saw only sand and dirt. It was all ripped up by the typhoon, apparently. Those poor people that live right on the beach--I wonder if they go through this every time a typhoon comes through?

At the end of the day, when I was exhausted and filthy from wading through the water for hours, I was told that normally there is a hot shower available but, you guessed it, it too was taken out by the typhoon

Doesn't sound like much of a video location. Unless you were just shooting waves and sand I guess.

[Harisenbon]

Doesn't sound like much of a video location. Unless you were just shooting waves and sand I guess.

Castaway 2?

Ishtar 2? ::shudder::