Japanese Typhoon First Hand

Typhoon Melor passed over Kobe and the Kansai area early in the morning. It was so loud I didn't sleep at all. It's on it's way to Tokyo as I type this. Not a lot of damage in my neighborhood, but others in Japan didn't fair so well. I was amazed that my entire apartment building shook for several hours!

Typhoon Melor: (Melor means "jasmine" in Malay).


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[TokyoNerd]

I'm sorry about your umbrella. I hat it when wind and what-not does that.

[BusanKevin]

happens to me all the time on windy days!

[mostawesomestjes]

Bitch slapped. hehe. I think typhoons also spin the opposite way from hurricanes. Not sure. I slept right through everything. When I went to work at 830 in the morning and it was like the comedy routines where the win blows someones toupe back as they walk against the wind and dont move anywhere. I am 100 lbs of nothing. It was an adventure, but I almost blew away only six times. ^-^ Crazy stuff.

[BusanKevin]

It sounded much worse than it really was. I suppose I mean that literally. From inside my apartment, in the middle of the night, it sounded as if Kobe was being torn to pieces. When I got up in the morning, there were just a lot of eaves off the trees and garbage scattered about!

[pantukhoff]

Nice to be in a rich developed country when typhoons/cyclones/hurricanes come, then we can make videos rather than scrambling for our lives!

At the beginning of the video I thought your teapot was boiling, what a strange sound have to cope with-I can see why you weren't able to sleep. Lots of free bikes on offer at the end hey?

[BusanKevin]

yep...I can never sleep when the tea pot boils all night! Yep, there are advantages to living where we live!

[DerSchnurrbart]

Okinawa got bitch-slapped lol

[nokomarie1963]

.Yep! I live on a cape of land, surrounded on three sides of water and we get blown to bits at times. It's just a fun ride, nothing gets damaged that didn't have it coming for poor design for the most part

[DeeDoubleYou81]

well thanks :)

[klynik]

I remember when Hurricane Floyd hit in Maryland years ago. My parents just finished remodeling the basement (drywall paint, carpet, furniture, etc.). Floyd hit about 2 months later and flooded it. We had to redo everything. Thats the only hurricane I really experienced though.

I've been in Florida for about 2.5 years now and luckily, I have to say it hasn't been too bad in terms of hurricanes, so far.

[shooby19]

wow that noise is creepy, i would be too scared to sleep :/ Do you know why they don't have insulation in the apartments in Japan?

[geofg]

I didn't know the typhoon had a name, thought they just used the numbers. Nagoya looked pretty much like your footage of Osaka. We faired alright, for the most part, but rain poured into the mail slot of our door at 5 in the morning because our dilligent newspaper carrier shoved the paper in their, propping it open. Flooded our genkan a bit, but we got it sopped up with towels. And, our north facing screens are amazingly clean now after being blasted by the wind and rain!