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HighlanderRPI  
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2017-10-21 8:48:22 AM  
Ke-ke-ke-ke-ke Zerg Typhoon Rush
 
doglover  
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2017-10-21 8:54:21 AM  
In Japan, they just number them.
 
doglover  
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2017-10-21 8:55:43 AM  
This incoming one is #21
 
holdmybones  
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2017-10-21 9:22:36 AM  

doglover: This incoming one is #21


Do they at least assign a zany mascot or something? Because that seems very un-Japanese , if not.
 
Doctor Poop  
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2017-10-21 9:25:38 AM  
 Better stock up on all the favorite Japanese export foods! Their nuclear goos may get all spilly and ruin my sushi again!

Never forget forget Fukushima. All that wasted sake!
 
wildcardjack [TotalFark]  
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2017-10-21 9:25:49 AM  
BEGIN Japanology Rain
Youtube GakLpHdZNHU


It's not short
 
Pichu0102  
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2017-10-21 9:26:56 AM  
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Doctor Poop  
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2017-10-21 9:26:58 AM  

holdmybones: doglover: This incoming one is #21

Do they at least assign a zany mascot or something? Because that seems very un-Japanese , if not.


Yes! it's a facedown body.
 
dumbobruni  
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2017-10-21 9:29:11 AM  
Damb

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Prank Call of Cthulhu  
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2017-10-21 9:29:36 AM  
I've been in Okinawa for typhoons with winds every bit as strong as what ripped up Florida and Texas. They were the lead story on the news, occupying all of about two minutes ("take your lawn chairs in and maybe try not to go outside") before they moved on to other stories. During the height of it, you could see a few people out walking to restaurants or driving their silly little cars around. Everything was fine. This is what happens when you actually build reasonable buildings that can withstand such weather, instead of being convinced your houses have to look just like everyone else's in the rest of the country. Now granted, that means you live in boxes made of concrete, but at least they don't blow away like the shiat they build in Florida and Texas.
 
berylman  
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2017-10-21 9:35:51 AM  
Unique headline there Subby. I doubt anyone will use that again
 
Day_Old_Dutchie  
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2017-10-21 9:37:10 AM  
But what CATegory do they expect?

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C'mon this was way too easy.
 
ArcadianRefugee  
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2017-10-21 9:37:49 AM  
Where do we go for cool atmoshperic graphics of the Pacific?  Something like our NHC website, but for stuff away from US?
 
boozehat  
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2017-10-21 9:42:42 AM  
"Tomasz Schafernaker has the details."

Okay.....thanks for that.
 
ApatheticMonkey  
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2017-10-21 9:45:22 AM  
On the upside, I may be getting a long weekend out of this.
 
doglover  
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2017-10-21 9:49:41 AM  

Doctor Poop: Better stock up on all the favorite Japanese export foods! Their nuclear goos may get all spilly and ruin my sushi again!

Never forget forget Fukushima. All that wasted sake!


Good sake comes from Nigata.
 
aagrajag  
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2017-10-21 9:52:23 AM  
The typhoon is called "Lan", ラン, 嵐, "storm".

Ten out of ten for topicality, but minus several million for cleverness, yeah?
 
MightyPez  
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2017-10-21 9:52:35 AM  
Not pictured, what a Typhoon may look like:

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Snarfangel [TotalFark]  
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2017-10-21 9:52:45 AM  
Lan is heading toward cat 5.

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6nome  
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2017-10-21 9:53:26 AM  
Does it have tentacles?
 
skinink [OhFark]  
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2017-10-21 10:00:45 AM  
Beware of the gankers!
 
doglover  
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2017-10-21 10:01:17 AM  

aagrajag: The typhoon is called "Lan", ラン, 嵐, "storm".

Ten out of ten for topicality, but minus several million for cleverness, yeah?


Actually, it's called 台風２１号
 
ChubbyTiger  
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2017-10-21 10:03:04 AM  

6nome: Does it have tentacles?


It's Japanese, duh.
 
luckyeddie  
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2017-10-21 10:05:32 AM  

6nome: Does it have tentacles?


It's gaining in strength. It's now got twelvetacles.
 
Doctor Poop  
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2017-10-21 10:06:29 AM  

doglover: Doctor Poop: Better stock up on all the favorite Japanese export foods! Their nuclear goos may get all spilly and ruin my sushi again!

Never forget forget Fukushima. All that wasted sake!

Good sake comes from Nigata.


Fukushima and Niigata are directly right next to each other. Both are considered somebof The Best agricultural land in Japan. Niigata sake is held in high esteem mainly because of a global blackball on all Fukushima food export. Sad.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30793331
 
doglover  
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2017-10-21 10:09:24 AM  

Doctor Poop: doglover: Doctor Poop: Better stock up on all the favorite Japanese export foods! Their nuclear goos may get all spilly and ruin my sushi again!

Never forget forget Fukushima. All that wasted sake!

Good sake comes from Nigata.

Fukushima and Niigata are directly right next to each other. Both are considered somebof The Best agricultural land in Japan. Niigata sake is held in high esteem mainly because of a global blackball on all Fukushima food export. Sad.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30793331


LIES!

Niigata rice and thus sake has been famous for a LOOOOONG time before 2011.
 
Doctor Poop  
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2017-10-21 10:19:04 AM  

doglover: Doctor Poop: doglover: Doctor Poop: Better stock up on all the favorite Japanese export foods! Their nuclear goos may get all spilly and ruin my sushi again!

Never forget forget Fukushima. All that wasted sake!

Good sake comes from Nigata.

Fukushima and Niigata are directly right next to each other. Both are considered somebof The Best agricultural land in Japan. Niigata sake is held in high esteem mainly because of a global blackball on all Fukushima food export. Sad.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30793331

LIES!

Niigata rice and thus sake has been famous for a LOOOOONG time before 2011.


Fukushima was the king of Junmai. A tragedy.
 
Dalek Caan's doomed mistress  
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2017-10-21 10:20:55 AM  
I live in northern Japan.  School has been canceled Monday.  It has been raining for three days straight as well.

As a teacher, woo, day off!  But, then again, everything is closed on Monday and I'm boring so I'll only sleep in and go to the grocery store.  Either way, I don't see this typhoon becoming much of an issue outside of me getting an extra day to sleep in.  And that's only because the trains tend to be more cautious (my area can get fairly windy very quickly), and it would end up with about half the students not being able to attend anyway.
 
MikeyFuccon  
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2017-10-21 10:24:34 AM  

doglover: In Japan, they just number them.


Yes and no. The Japan Meteorological Agency has been naming storms since 2000 (using a list of names contributed by 14 countries with interests in the northwest Pacific), but they don't heavily publicize them themselves.
 
Smoking GNU [TotalFark]  
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2017-10-21 10:24:40 AM  

Prank Call of Cthulhu: I've been in Okinawa for typhoons with winds every bit as strong as what ripped up Florida and Texas. They were the lead story on the news, occupying all of about two minutes ("take your lawn chairs in and maybe try not to go outside") before they moved on to other stories. During the height of it, you could see a few people out walking to restaurants or driving their silly little cars around. Everything was fine. This is what happens when you actually build reasonable buildings that can withstand such weather, instead of being convinced your houses have to look just like everyone else's in the rest of the country. Now granted, that means you live in boxes made of concrete, but at least they don't blow away like the shiat they build in Florida and Texas.


And you only have to build them once instead of rebuilding everytime a hurricane comes by.
 
whr21  
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2017-10-21 10:30:18 AM  
Run, Run for your lives ...
 
Doctor Poop  
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2017-10-21 10:34:38 AM  

Smoking GNU: Prank Call of Cthulhu: I've been in Okinawa for typhoons with winds every bit as strong as what ripped up Florida and Texas. They were the lead story on the news, occupying all of about two minutes ("take your lawn chairs in and maybe try not to go outside") before they moved on to other stories. During the height of it, you could see a few people out walking to restaurants or driving their silly little cars around. Everything was fine. This is what happens when you actually build reasonable buildings that can withstand such weather, instead of being convinced your houses have to look just like everyone else's in the rest of the country. Now granted, that means you live in boxes made of concrete, but at least they don't blow away like the shiat they build in Florida and Texas.

And you only have to build them once instead of rebuilding everytime a hurricane comes by.


It's good for the economy. Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, Trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it,
 
stir22  
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2017-10-21 10:37:37 AM  

ArcadianRefugee: Where do we go for cool atmoshperic graphics of the Pacific?  Something like our NHC website, but for stuff away from US?


www.windy.com
 
UseUrHeadFred  
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2017-10-21 10:37:44 AM  

Prank Call of Cthulhu: I've been in Okinawa for typhoons with winds every bit as strong as what ripped up Florida and Texas. They were the lead story on the news, occupying all of about two minutes ("take your lawn chairs in and maybe try not to go outside") before they moved on to other stories. During the height of it, you could see a few people out walking to restaurants or driving their silly little cars around. Everything was fine. This is what happens when you actually build reasonable buildings that can withstand such weather, instead of being convinced your houses have to look just like everyone else's in the rest of the country. Now granted, that means you live in boxes made of concrete, but at least they don't blow away like the shiat they build in Florida and Texas.


Yeah, but how're you supposed to make money rebuilding via no-compete government kickback bids if the buildings don't get destroyed?

Stupid plan, 1/10.
 
willfullyobscure  
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2017-10-21 10:39:09 AM  

Dalek Caan's doomed mistress: go to the grocery store.


IRAS SHAI MASUUUUUUUU
 
MikeyFuccon  
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2017-10-21 10:47:53 AM  
Here's the wind speed probability chart for Lan (currently a Cat 2, packing 95kt wind speeds) for the next three days.

List of northwest Pacific tropical cyclone names here.

Lan, submitted by the US, just means "storm" in Marshallese. The next named storm will be named Saola, after a rare bovine animal found in Vietnam.

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Delta1212  
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2017-10-21 10:51:26 AM  
I have some friends that just landed in Tokyo on Friday.

So that'll be fun for them.
 
salsashark1  
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2017-10-21 10:52:05 AM  
Oh no. There goes Tokyo . . .
 
Doctor Poop  
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2017-10-21 10:52:24 AM  

MikeyFuccon: Here's the wind speed probability chart for Lan (currently a Cat 2, packing 95kt wind speeds) for the next three days.

List of northwest Pacific tropical cyclone names here.

Lan, submitted by the US, just means "storm" in Marshallese. The next named storm will be named Saola, after a rare bovine animal found in Vietnam.

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A rare bovine animal...

ABOUT TO BE SWEPT INTO THE OCEAN!!!
 
JAYoung  
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2017-10-21 10:54:20 AM  

ArcadianRefugee: Where do we go for cool atmoshperic graphics of the Pacific?  Something like our NHC website, but for stuff away from US?


This is my favorite:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-238.24,19.26,544
 
7th Son of a 7th Son  
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2017-10-21 10:56:23 AM  
She makes me see.
 
morg  
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2017-10-21 11:00:24 AM  
OK, boys and girls in Okinawa, you know the drill. As soon as you are sufficiently lubricated you need to find a hill facing the wind and a bed sheet. Wait there for instructions. Or you can try to fly away home.
 
ArcadianRefugee  
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2017-10-21 11:00:58 AM  

stir22: www.windy.com


JAYoung: This is my favorite:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-238.24,19.26,544


Whoa. A bit fancier than I was thinking, but cool. Thanks.

UseUrHeadFred: Yeah, but how're you supposed to make money rebuilding via no-compete government kickback bids if the buildings don't get destroyed?

Stupid plan, 1/10.


Name checks out.
 
WTP 2  
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2017-10-21 11:01:56 AM  

Day_Old_Dutchie: But what CATegory do they expect?

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C'mon this was way too easy.


i also, expected more wires...
 
hotmoonsauce  
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2017-10-21 11:06:34 AM  

Prank Call of Cthulhu: I've been in Okinawa for typhoons with winds every bit as strong as what ripped up Florida and Texas. They were the lead story on the news, occupying all of about two minutes ("take your lawn chairs in and maybe try not to go outside") before they moved on to other stories. During the height of it, you could see a few people out walking to restaurants or driving their silly little cars around. Everything was fine. This is what happens when you actually build reasonable buildings that can withstand such weather, instead of being convinced your houses have to look just like everyone else's in the rest of the country. Now granted, that means you live in boxes made of concrete, but at least they don't blow away like the shiat they build in Florida and Texas.


I also lived in Okinawa for about 2 years and experienced two different typhoons.  And as you stated, it was pretty much nothing.  Pretty much nothing of consequence was destroyed and besides everything being white afterwards it was easy peasy.
 
stir22  
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2017-10-21 11:13:49 AM  

ArcadianRefugee: stir22: www.windy.com

JAYoung: This is my favorite:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-238.24,19.26,544

Whoa. A bit fancier than I was thinking, but cool. Thanks.

UseUrHeadFred: Yeah, but how're you supposed to make money rebuilding via no-compete government kickback bids if the buildings don't get destroyed?

Stupid plan, 1/10.

Name checks out.


I like windy. com because you can either view the entire world or zoom it to where you live, also you can change it to anything from when two humidity to cloud cover all kinds of shiat.
 
Leishu  
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2017-10-21 11:22:11 AM  

MikeyFuccon: Here's the wind speed probability chart for Lan (currently a Cat 2, packing 95kt wind speeds) for the next three days.


Psh. That's barely Telephone speeds. Really challenging to even get Lan at those speeds. Let me know when it gets up to Cat5/5e, at least.
 
Plant Rights Activist  
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2017-10-21 11:26:25 AM  
Nynaeve seen nervously tugging her hair
 
Lochsteppe  
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2017-10-21 11:46:31 AM  

Plant Rights Activist: Nynaeve seen nervously tugging her hair


Should not have taken this long.
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End_Of_Line  
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2017-10-21 11:55:13 AM  

JAYoung: ArcadianRefugee: Where do we go for cool atmoshperic graphics of the Pacific?  Something like our NHC website, but for stuff away from US?

This is my favorite:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-238.24,19.26,544


Very cool. Thanks for the link. I've found a new time-sink.
 
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