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haha! I now know where you live!

seriously though, that freakin sucks. time to buy batteries, jugs of water, canned foods, plywood, condoms....

Make sure you stay safe bro

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for a second there I thought it said "plywood condoms" ROFL

lol.. power always goes out.. so I bought a 2100 watt generataror so I can run the frige, 54" tv and dvd player.. (IMG:http://www.nopistons.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) , but dammit I forgot to get condoms.. guess I'll have to pull out.. (IMG:http://www.nopistons.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/boink.gif)

We just hope like hell the cars make it threw alive.. We get to cuddle up in our concrete houses, so were pretty much good to go. If the shop takes a beating (it's built out of telephone poles, sheet metal and plywood) my cars in for it since it's stuck inside 1/2 way threw my 20B swap.. (IMG:http://www.nopistons.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

so whatr you gonna do with your car?

There's pretty much nothing I can do it's pretty much stuck there so I just have to hope for the best. I did go down there and clean up all the loose shit that could fly and hit it and we reinforced the doors etc... So now it's all luck... Also Japanese people don't believe in building garages so all of our cars are usually stuck outside to weather the typhoons. The only people here that do have them have lots of $ because the Japanese Gov't considers having a garage as a luxury item and they tax you for it.

thats rough, good luck with the cars. dont fly away either

We are watching one out in the Atlantic right now and I have had to run from a couple. I hope all goes well for you.

I remember boarding up my house and evacuating for Hurricane Floyd. I remember looking back at my house as I pulled away and thinking this is the last time I will see it in one piece. Thank god it turned at the last minute. A friend of mine lost his vacation hom ein the Bahamas from that one.

Again Good Luck to you, be safe.

oops, forgot, the yellow dot in the red dot is the shop (IMG:http://www.nopistons.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Right now the only vision I have in my head is a bunch of Japanese people pointing at a huge 100ft wave and the running away screaming.



Hope everything goes alright for you. Flooding isnt cool. I had to deal with that 2 years ago (IMG:http://www.nopistons.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Yep, Okinawan buildings are made like bunkers. Cubic concrete shelters with protection for the windows. But places like garages usually are more like shacks. Hey Dragon, are there old tires on the roof of The Shop? (IMG:http://www.nopistons.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)



Okinawa sees these typhoons quite often. Almost nothing major gets messed up ever. A few street lights and business signs get trashed, but that's about it. They are prepared for this stuff. I actually find it funny (funny = when it happens to other people, tragedy = when it happens to you) when houses along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast get blown all to hell. If they keep making homes they way they do in America where they get pummeled by hurricanes then fuck 'em. If you don't want to die in a hurricane, either move to where hurricanes aren't or make a home that's strong. We need less stupid people in the world anyway. Ever read The Three Little Pigs? Remember which house was still standing after all the huffing and puffing? Neither the straw house nor the wood house remained. Same thing with mobile homes and wood frame homes. Build the homes in these areas like they do in Oki and hurricanes will no longer be much of an issue. So what if they're ugly? They'll take the worst beating a hurricane can dish out and still be standing afterwards. But Americans will never get smart. Everytime a hurricane comes through it'll be the same story over again.

So, where can somebody move to escape harsh weather? Seattle of course! Summer isn't hot, winter isn't cold. Rain? Less than most other cities. The precipitation here isn't like rain usually. It's more like a 5 month long misting bottle spraying down the whole region. Summer time is very dry but winter is best described as "blehh". Plus we have a volcano nearby that's overdue to pop. Tornados? Not out here. Earthquakes? No more than most anywhere else along fault lines. But other than that, the weather here never gets bad enough to kill. It's just depressing half of the year.

My friend just bought a house in jacksonville. 8 inch thick concrete walls. that would stand to a storm or two!

That's more like it. That won't be one of the places that's in a million pieces on the evening news after it eventually gets smacked up by a pissed off mother Nature.

My house is 1 mile from the intercoastal and 2 miles from the ocean. BUT I have a 15 foot tall hill right behind the house I have stood on my back porch during a 100 MPH wind hurricane and could not feel even a breeze. It all flows over the hill and over my house. Gotta love aerodynamics!

I ran from Floyd because it was a category 5 hurricane. They usually spawn off a ton of tornados. I decided to move out of the way.

I agree Jerk Racer. The government allowed insurance companies to drop the coastal clients. My friends house in the Bahama's was not insured. But when you break it down he is still ahead of the game. To insure it would cost over $10K a year. His partner in the house and him put that premium money in a bank account every year. They had the house for 12 years before this happened. It cost them $80K to rebuild it.

fuck the car you can rebuild that....just dont get hurt

when you say that I have visions of the old Godzilla movies in my head
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I'm not sure what their bellyaching is all about in Okinawa. According to the experts at The Weather Channel there is a 90% chance of rain and the wind is only 17mph. (IMG:http://www.nopistons.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/post-1-1047683561.gif)

i agree with apex13b but if your car does get killed i will shed a tear with you. its like having a death in the family. i will feel the pain cause as far as im concerned any one of you rotary drivers are in my somehow distant third cousin kind of a way related family. so good luck for your car and even better luck to you my friend.

chris.

Whooo hooo.. it's moving west a bit more.. (IMG:http://www.nopistons.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) this = weaker winds.. It's just starting to get windy now, but the strongest wind are supposed to only be 100mph in about 18 hrs from now, much bet