As most of you probably don’t know, Japan is currently being beseiged by a loverly typhoon. In Japan, they don’t name them. They just give them numbers, so this year there have been 14 typhoons in the region. However this is only the second to remotely affect Japan. Anyway, this is the closest I’ve been to the eye of a typhoon or hurricane (which is the same thing, it’s stupid they have two names…). I caught quite abit of the faster part of the typhoon. As I write, actually, it is howling like mad out there. This is also the first typhoon to actually damage something I own. I have this little overhang to put my clothes under to dry, well I guess I should say I had one cause it’s gone. Hopefully, when the tide hits full tide, it won’t push the river outside my house overr the banks, cause it’s pretty close (to going over, not to my house, it’s still abit away, but too close for comfort).

Brian Schuch