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What kind of silly tit names a typhoon 'Beautiful Fragrant Flower?'
I much prefer the Japanese numbering system.

It would be very annoying to write on an insurance form that your roof had been ripped off by a Beautiful Fragrant Flower rather than by Typhoon No. 9.

Yikes! The damned thing is heading straight at me.
It is time to slide the rain shutters closed.

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Good luck, Mukade! I hope you will weather the storm in good health.
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Stay safe, dude.
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Make sure you keeps your pipes in something watertight!
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http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/ ... 0000c.html
Powerful typhoon expected to pound Tokyo

A powerful typhoon is expected to hit the Kanto and Tokai regions on mainland Honshu early Friday, the Meteorological Agency said.
As of 5 p.m. on Thursday, the typhoon, the ninth of the year, was located about 110 kilometers southwest of Miyake Island in the Pacific Ocean. It was heading north at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour.
The atmospheric pressure at its center was 965 hectopascals. Its maximum instantaneous wind speed reached 50 meters per second, agency officials said.
If my math is correct, 50m/second would equal about 112 miles per hour, making the wind speed equivalent to a category 3 hurricane.

Stay safe, Mukade, i hope everything turns out okay.
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stay safe and keep that 'Beautiful Fragrant Flower' out of your arse. Contrary to common belief, it's bad for the sphincter...thorns and everything, you know. :wink:
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Stay safe, mukade! I hope it passes quickly, and uneventfully.
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Thanks for the kind words.

We are in a good position here. No floods and no landslides in our part of the city.

There have already been several small landslides around the region.

We have an old-fashioned tiled roof - deadly in an earthquake, but safer than modern lego roofing in a typhoon.

We are fine as long as the neighbour's roof stays in place.

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Ditto the 'stay safe' wishes.

But a random question from an ignorant american:
mukade wrote:...but safer than modern lego roofing in a typhoon.
Lego roofing? Do tell ...
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Reminds me of the WWII flying bomb called the "Cherry Blossom" or something like that. Where do people come up with things like that?

Keep your head down, Mukade.

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fyffer wrote:Ditto the 'stay safe' wishes.

But a random question from an ignorant american:
mukade wrote:...but safer than modern lego roofing in a typhoon.
Lego roofing? Do tell ...
Most modern housing in Japan may as well be made of lego.
The land costs so much many people can't afford a decent building.

There is also a long tradition of tearing down old buildings to build new.
The 'place' is more important than the artificial entity placed there.

In a country where natural disasters are common, it is lucky that anything old is standing at all.

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Know that you've battened the hatches with the thoughts of friends inside. Double Luck!
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WyoBadger wrote:Reminds me of the WWII flying bomb called the "Cherry Blossom" or something like that. Where do people come up with things like that?

Keep your head down, Mukade.

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"Cherry Blossom" makes sense in that the flowers, being so very short-lived, petals falling practically at a breath, were a Japanese metaphor for samurai, of whom in battle no more was expected, really, than to die. The image became a sort of meme, I think one calls it. Extend poetic metaphor to WWII, and voila.

As for "Beautiful Fragrant Flower" applied to a typhoon, though, I don't get that one teensy bit at all, at all. Doesn't seem Japanese to me in the slightest.

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It's probably a euphemism for "Big Stinker".
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Nanohedron wrote:
WyoBadger wrote:Reminds me of the WWII flying bomb called the "Cherry Blossom" or something like that. Where do people come up with things like that?

Keep your head down, Mukade.

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As for "Beautiful Fragrant Flower" applied to a typhoon, though, I don't get that one teensy bit at all, at all. Doesn't seem Japanese to me in the slightest.

And good wishes to you, Mukade.
You are right. Japan still uses a number system for typhoons.
A group of international scientists creates a list ahead of the typhoon season and applies the names sequentially.
I understand that names help to identify storms better than numbers, but the last typhoon was named 'usagi' or 'rabbit.'
Perhaps my imagination is limited, but a cute bunny is the last thing that springs to mind in a typhoon.

Everything is fine for me.
The news said there has been one death and under 50 serious injuries.
The 'phoon is making its way through northern Japan now.

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