Liveblogging Typhoon Fitow

September 6, 2007 – 6:49 am

Typhoon Fitow makes landfall soon, the eye coming ashore to the west of Tokyo.
Cynthia and I have tickets for the Nozomi Shinkansen to Hiroshima tomorrow morning at 7. The typhoon’s track cuts across the main bullet train route, so our trip may be delayed.
Right now we have heavy rain and wind, and many blown-out umbrellas [...]

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Japan Doesn’t Sink, but It Does Get Wet

September 5, 2007 – 6:37 am

There’s a category one typhoon bearing down on Tokyo, where Cyn and I are staying. Today we were up in Nikko, and were caught out in some severe downpours. Also, waving hello to the SVG Open folks at Keio University.

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Hurricane Rita

September 21, 2005 – 11:52 pm

I have friends and family from Houston to north of Dallas, so I’m worried. If the storm continues as projected, the storm will remain at hurricane strength for several hours after landfall. San Antonio, Austin, Waco, and Dallas could get knocked around, and plenty of parts of Dallas are on or near the flood plane [...]

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