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Followtheriver (original poster member #58858) posted at 5:24 AM on Thursday, October 10th, 2019
SI family, I need your prayers, mojo and if you have an in with Mother Nature, even better.
MrRiver and our adult sons are in Japan for the World Rugby Cup, having a great time and are due to fly home from Tokyo to the US this weekend. Right at the same time that they are predicting that Hagibis will be coming ashore, unless it makes a sharp turn back out to sea.
They don't seem too worried right now, but I sure as hell am. We don't get typhoons or hurricanes coming off Lake Erie. Severe thunderstorms, blizzards, temperatures and windchill below zero, they are no problem but a typhoon is out of my comfort zone.
The good news is that I will not be worrying alone this weekend, I will be at the g2g in Dallas, with wonderful friends, who will keep me from worrying too much.
Thank y'all so much! I feel better already.
Chrysalis123 ( member #27148) posted at 9:03 PM on Thursday, October 10th, 2019
Mojo...
I live in southwestern Florida. This is what I know about hurricanes from this year. Every single prediction was wrong. Like really wrong and wildly incorrect.
The predictions kept changing every day. The models disagreed with each other all the time too.
Someone posted a funny picture on Facebook. It was a map of Florida after someone threw spaghetti on it....they call the predictions spaghetti plots. That's how crazy inaccurate they were. Might as well throw spaghetti on a map and take your chances.
Here we have special building codes and great shelters that are specially constructed to withstand hurricane force winds.
If your family is in a safe building out of the flood zone, for instance on a higher floor of a hotel, they will more than likely be just fine. They might not get home on schedule if the hurricane has a direct hit to the airport.
This is not Japan's first go around with a hurricane, and I am pretty sure they are very well prepared.
[This message edited by Chrysalis123 at 7:26 PM, October 10th (Thursday)]
Someone I once loved gave me/ a box full of darkness/ It took me years to understand/ That this, too, was a gift. - Mary Oliver
Just for the record darling, not all positive changes feel positive in the beginning -S C Lourie
Lionne ( member #25560) posted at 9:23 PM on Thursday, October 10th, 2019
Ditto. I'm sure the tv and radio stations overstate the hype to sell airtime.
Of course, it doesn't mean one should entirely ignore warnings. As the previous poster said, Japan has had it's share of bad storms.
It's crazy sometimes. I'm in southern NJ, I'm 65, lived here all my life. The MOST I've ever been snowed in or without power or unable to travel was 3 days. But you'd never know that by the hordes of people buying last minute toilet paper.
Me-BS-71 in May HIM-SAFWH-74 I just wanted a normal life.Normal trauma would have been appreciated.
marji ( member #49356) posted at 8:40 PM on Saturday, October 12th, 2019
Followtheriver Reading about this most powerful typhoon and hope your husband and sons are safe and sound and able to come home on schedule.
The predictions are not always correct but we know from the great damage done by storms like Hurricane Sandy, more recently by storms to the Bahamas, Puerto Rico that the warnings are all too often are correct; danger is always in the ignoring-not the warnings that can save lives if not property.
squid ( member #57624) posted at 9:32 PM on Saturday, October 12th, 2019
Mojo sent. I live in Florida and understand the unpredictability of hurricanes and typhoons. I hope Hagibis spares your loved ones and does minimal damage.
BH
D-Day 2.19.17
Divorced 12.10.18
This isn’t what any of us signed up for. But it is the hand that we have been dealt. Thus, we must play it.
Followtheriver (original poster member #58858) posted at 11:31 PM on Saturday, October 12th, 2019
I talked to my hubby this morning and when the typhoon hit, there was also an earthquake. But they are safe. Tokyo's rail system has shut down and their flight has been canceled, so right now they are on a wait and see what happens.
thebighurt ( member #34722) posted at 12:03 AM on Sunday, October 13th, 2019
Bet you are so relieved to have spoken with him. I heard about it today on the news and it's not sounding good, but you know they are safe. As if a severe storm was not bad enough, an earthquake, too? Yikes!! They will have quite a story to tell.
Finding what life could have been....... Why didn't I see it?
Shockedmom ( member #44708) posted at 12:38 AM on Sunday, October 13th, 2019
I’m so glad they are safe. Hopefully the airports are functional and ready to operate soon.
Chrysalis123 ( member #27148) posted at 12:43 AM on Sunday, October 13th, 2019
I am very happy you heard from them. Now, continue enjoying the g2g in Texas!
Someone I once loved gave me/ a box full of darkness/ It took me years to understand/ That this, too, was a gift. - Mary Oliver
Just for the record darling, not all positive changes feel positive in the beginning -S C Lourie
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