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lebkuchen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-05 02:58 AM Original message |
Okinawa troops bracing for Super Typhoon Nabi |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-05 03:06 AM Response to Original message |
1. We can learn a lot from the way things are done in Okinawa |
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lebkuchen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-05 05:05 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. It's a coral island w/concrete structures |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-05 08:41 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Exactly!!! |
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lebkuchen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-05 09:29 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Remember being in the eye of a Cat. 5 typhoon? |
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Catch22Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-05 10:02 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Yeah, I remember it quite well |
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enlightenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-05 10:21 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Too true. |
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Old Mouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-05 03:18 AM Response to Original message |
2. This is the THIRD CAT 5 in Asia this season |
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onecent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-05 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
6. My daughter and her family live in Okinawa. Her husband is a |
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lebkuchen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-05 10:09 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Thanks for the info. I have friends there, too. |
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onecent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-04-05 10:13 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. I think they enjoy the relief actually....they have a generator so they |
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lebkuchen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 04:00 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. It cools down in the winter |
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Longhorn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 10:32 AM Response to Reply #6 |
27. My son is at Iwakuni but he's at Camp Fuji near Tokyo right now |
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Whoa_Nelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 04:04 AM Response to Original message |
12. Typhoon Nabi poised to hit Japan's main island (Cat 4) |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 04:04 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Apparently Japan and the US measure differently, so there's |
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MnFats (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 04:04 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. let's hope they don't need help from us.... |
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progressive_realist (669 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 04:04 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Currently a category 4, but expected to weaken before landfall. |
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lebkuchen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 04:04 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. It was 165 miles per hour a day ago. |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 04:04 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. It is moving very slowly |
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mom cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
18. Typhoon Nabi is nearing the Ryukyu Islands (moving toward Nagasaki) |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 10:01 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. this does not look good at all. |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 10:01 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I went through several typhoons on Okinawa. Funny thing is nine months |
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Akoto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 10:01 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Wow. |
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preciousdove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 10:01 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Thanks I was just going to Google my sister is on Okinawa n/t |
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Lilyhoney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 10:01 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. I have been watching this one. nt |
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NYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 10:01 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Does this mean it missed China? |
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whatelseisnew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 10:01 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. Ispoke to a woman in Louisiana w/no power, water, money |
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Rebel_with_a_cause (933 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-05-05 10:02 AM Response to Reply #18 |
26. Since it's Monday night there now, |
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