We're about to get typhooned today. Typhoon, tropical depression, something like that. The track predicts it going south of Osaka, but since it's coming in from the west that puts us on the left edge so things might get interesting. Probably not. Osaka is actually a really good city site; connected to Kyoto by the Yodo river (Yodogawa), access to the sea but sheltered by Shikoku and Awaji islands, on a pretty big chunk of rock without too many fault lines. Of course, the Nankai Trough lies just offshore and when that one goes the predicted death toll is 20,000 at the low end and 230,000 at the top, so if you hear about it happening just memorialize my account
https://www.dw.com/en/spanish-officials-fear-volcanic-eruption-on-la-palma/a-59205782 Lets not add this to an already horrid year.
Unnatural disaster, but since it made the international news I'll tag myself safe from the arson in Osaka that claimed 24 lives today. The building was up to code, with the sole fire escape stairs, only wide enough for a single person, being located right next to the elevator. A nutjob with a sack of flammable liquid set the fire in such a spot that it was between the people on the 4th floor of the eight story building and the only way out. An "expert" conceded that maybe buildings should have two distinct exits... https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/asia/japan-osaka-building-fire-intl-hnk/index.html
Pleased you're okay. There's a really unfortunate trend in our modern society of tick-and-flick when it comes to safety. We really need to get away from the whole notion that something is safe because it satisfies some official's checklist for "safety". The world is in dire need of some (un)common sense!
There was a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in northern Japan last night, roughly the same area as the one 11 years ago that caused the tsunami and nuclear meltdown. Other end of the country from me, so I'm relieved to be able to report that everything is good here.
Tropical storm Fiona is about to hit our retired admin's fortified James Bond supervillain lair in the Carribbean and I'm due for a wild Tuesday night thanks to Typhoon #14. Woo-hoo!
Humans are often exposed to the Natural disasters, more or less. Disaster can be an earthquake, storm, flood, or in particular, a tsunami, eruption of a volcano, and forest fire, regionally. Fortunately, we can not put the collision of a great asteroid with the earth's atmosphere on the list; because such an event seems unlikely, though it can happen, however! Science and technology can help somewhat, but more often, we are weaker than a competitor to repel the anger of nature by ourselves. We can imagine, nature is a forceful king with powerful corpses, and if the king decrees to damage an area, it will do the same. An old Iranian poet (800 years ago) says: It is possible to block a headwaters stream with a shovel, but if it changed into the Nile, we would not be able to cross the river with the elephant. Yes, water by all its softness and live-giving attributes, can be a destroyer thing on the earth, and as the same example, when the soft and pleasant breeze changes into a hurricane, it can destroy everything on its way. So, we should respect nature and don't be inattentive to its dissatisfaction. An aware philosopher said: Nature is intelligent and understand! And I say: we should not blow smoke to the atmosphere because if it coughs, it will be a destroyer reaction! Of course, that is one of the multiple faults of humans!
Hurricane Ian is currently thrashing Fort Myers, Florida. The footage I’ve seen on Twitter is awful.
Not exactly a natural disaster, but 150+ dead in a crush at a Halloween street party in Seoul. I was out at the party in Osaka last night. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/29/dozens-of-people-crushed-by-large-crowd-at-halloween-festivities-in-south-korea
Have been working on a short story all week involving tornadoes. Last night a major tornadic outbreak wreaked havoc in NE Texas and SE Oklahoma and SW Arkansas. Some deaths, many injuries. Huge amounts of destruction. I know it's just coincidence; but me writing it and it happening just weirds me a little.
A substantial number of my family members live smack dab in the middle of that area. I haven't heard from anyone, so am assuming no news is good news until I hear differently. Edit: got a text from a friend in the area. Texarkana took a direct hit and New Boston lost about fifty homes. My aunt lives between the two places and one cousin lives in New Boston. Still waiting for news...
All of mine are safe. I pray that yours are too. Several major tornados going at once. I've never owned a storm shelter, it may be time.
Two positively accounted for and sounds like maybe the tornadoes missed our farm. Hope so. Waiting to hear from the others. Glad your folks are okay. Did you tell me they are in Fort Smith? Or am I thinking of someone else?
Must be some other hicks. ;} All my kin are in far s.e. OK. No damage, just scared. "when you see that huge funnel cloud coming at you; God takes on a different meaning."
I've never been in that part of Arkansas. It's as foreign to me as Boston, Mass. A cousin posted on a FB checkin page that she's all right; if anyone else got hit, I think she'd have said so.
This is catastrophic! What other parts of the world were devastated by the storms over the holidays? So lucky we didn't get hit like that where I live. Condolences to anyone in these horrible conditions. Any of our members from New York or nearby?
We live across the border about 30 km from Buffalo. My niece is an ICU nurse at a Buffalo hospital. She went into work Friday morning, leaving here at 5:30 a.m. Then, no nurses were able to come in for days and she worked a 85 - hour shift, sleeping for a few hours here and there, only being released to come home last night. My sister lives in Fort Erie, which is across the Niagara River from Buffalo. They were hit hard, and were without power for four days. We had bad weather here, we had to postpone our family's Christmas Eve gathering, but not as bad as the area around Lake Erie.
