To: HAL9000
Super Typhoons are no fun. I spent three days trapped indoors by Super Typhoon Wynne in 1980.
They didn't evacuate us, because honestly, how do you evacuate the entire island of Okinawa? They just told us not to come to work.
4 posted on
08/27/2006 8:44:26 PM PDT by
Not A Snowbird
(Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
To: SandyInSeattle
They didn't evacuate us, because honestly, how do you evacuate the entire island of Okinawa? They just told us not to come to work.
We had the same situation in Gitmo. You hunkered down and rode out the hurricanes. One of them hit us 3 times in one week.
65 posted on
08/30/2006 5:05:01 PM PDT by
gitmo
(From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
To: SandyInSeattle
They didn't evacuate us, because honestly, how do you evacuate the entire island of Okinawa? Didn't they have a bunch of school buses?
66 posted on
08/30/2006 5:09:43 PM PDT by
Doe Eyes
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