Saturday, September 24, 2005

Not quite Katrina

or Rita, but we get our share of Tropical Storms here too. The power of the storms might be similar, but the Japanese have been toughing these out for thousands of years, so even direct hits are just an inconvenience and a few hours of live news reporting from a beach.

We had everything in place for a long weekend of DH riding in the Nagano: bikes repaired and tuned just right, the rack system on the truck repaired and reinforced, all camping/riding/cooking gear packed, etc. The forecast began looking worse as the holiday (the Autumnal equinox) grew nearer...

Finally we decided to abandon the plans and stay around home in Susono. It turns out that Typhoon #18 is heading this way, and should reach here by 6 tomorrow morning. Here is a multi-spectral image of that storm:

2 comments:

-lyn said...

Hang in there ... and be sure you have batteries in your flashlights!
love, Mom

Internet Street Philosopher said...

Sucks that you had to postpone your trip, well as long as you go sometime soon.