Posted on 09/29/2004 8:00:49 AM PDT by Truth666
A record eighth typhoon swept through southern Japan on Wednesday, killing at least two people, triggering floods and strong winds that forced the evacuation of tens of thousands.
"This is the heaviest rain I've ever had in my life. I can't sleep because I am worried about my house," the Mainichi newspaper quoted a 90-year-old man in Miyagawamura village, in the western prefecture of Mie, as saying.
Earlier this month, typhoon Songda, one of the most powerful to hit Japan in recent years, killed at least 30 people and injured hundreds. Typhoon Megi killed at least 13 people in Japan and South Korea in August.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
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That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and
snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed
it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder
start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
in a fire, representing seven games, a government
for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in
a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team
by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh,
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save
yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,
patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
psyched.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a candle, light a votive. Step down, step down.
Watch O'Neill crush rush, uh oh this means no beer Cavalier
Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
offer me alternatives and I decline.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel
fine...fine...
(It's time I had some time alone)
Japan braces for strongest typhoon in a decade
A powerful typhoon is likely to make a direct hit on the Kanto region Saturday evening, the Meteorological Agency said.
By Sunday noon, the typhoon is estimated to bring about 250 millimeters of rain to the Pacific coast of the Tohoku region in northeastern Honshu as well as the Tokai and Kanto regions, and 200 millimeters to Izu Islands and the Koshin regions including Nagano and Yamanashi prefectures, according to the latest weather reports.
unprecedented ... AGAIN ... and AGAIN
Ma-on is believed to be one of the most powerful storms to strike the Kanto region, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. It became the ninth typhoon to land on the Japanese archipelago this year, a record high.
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=314777
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