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To: Gen.Blather

Sometimes the storms actually save people:

Kamikaze (the devine wind that saved Japan from the Mongol invasion TWICE!

On August 15-16, 1281, a typhoon struck the Japanese home island of Kyushu, sinking and scattering a Mongolian fleet bent on invading Japan. A previous invasion effort by Kublai Khan seven years before had met a similar fate. This time the typhoon raged for two days, and many ships of the invasion fleet were flat-bottomed barges ill-suited to rough sea conditions. An estimated 4000 ships were destroyed with the loss of 100,000 soldiers.

The Japanese saw divine intervention in these two storms and called them “kami kaze” (神風) or “divine wind”. During World War II, the nickname “kamikaze” was applied to Japanese suicide pilots in the hopes that they would repel the American fleets as the typhoons had done with Kublai Khan’s.


17 posted on 07/02/2024 1:47:40 PM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

Just south of Jamaica but almost direct hit going to be bad.


18 posted on 07/02/2024 1:49:13 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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