Powerful typhoon approaches Japan's Okinawa island
By | Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — The strongest typhoon to approach Okinawa in several years was bearing down on the southern Japanese island on Sunday as residents were told to stay indoors and warned its strong gusts could overturn cars and cause waves of up to 12 meters (40 feet).Slow-moving Typhoon Bolaven was centered about 150 kilometers (93 miles) southeast of Okinawa and was expected to pass over the island Sunday evening, dumping as much as 500 millimeters (20 inches) of rain over a 24-hour period, weather officials said. The Japan Meteorological Agency said wind speeds near the center of the typhoon were about 180 kph (112 mph), with extremely strong gusts reaching 252 kilometers per hour (155 mph).Those gusts could knock over telephone poles and even overturn cars, while waves around the island could top 12 meters (40 feet), public broadcaster NHK warned. NHK reported two injuries, including a 78-year-old man who was knocked over by winds and cut his forehead. There were no reports of major damage, but some 200 households were without electricity and some 300 people had taken shelter in public buildings, said disaster officials in Okinawa, which has a population of 1.4 million. All domestic and international flights in and out of Naha Airport, serving the island's capital, were cancelled. Gusts from the typhoon could equal or surpass the previous record for Naha of 265 kph (165 mph) winds in a 1956 typhoon, said Tsukasa Uezu, an official with the Okinawa Meteorological Observatory Weather Information Center.The storm's relatively slow movement — 15 kph (9 mph) to the northwest — means "exposure to wind and rain will be that much longer," and raises the possibility of serious damage, said Shun Miygai, an official with the Okinawa Disaster Prevention and Crisis Management Center.The Japan Meteorological Agency issued storm and storm surge warnings in Okinawa prefecture and for high waves in the waters around the island.More than half the 50,000 U.S. troops based in Japan are stationed in Okinawa. At Kadena Air Base, one of the biggest bases on the island, all shops and service facilities were ordered closed and movement around the base was to be kept to a minimum. All entry into the ocean was prohibited.The typhoon, the 15th of the season, was expected to continue into the East China Sea and then into the Yellow Sea, possibly affecting southern coastal areas of South Korea by Tuesday, Japanese weather officials said.Bolaven comes on the heels of Typhoon Tembin, which soaked southern Taiwan on Friday, largelysparing populated areas before blowing out to sea again. ***WOW!!! I mean WTH FTW....I used to live at this *****hole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know every single one of those place that they are talking about from the Naha Airport, to Kadena Air Base where I lived...we had typhoons every single year, but they never ever lasted long, and it didn't scare me much, cause I simply didn't care...Typhoons are just like hurricanes, it just rains and the wind blows like crazy and messes up like tree and roofs and buildings, maybe scares some people half to death, but I didn't flinch, and didn't care at all what happened to that rotten place...yes I know that I will be bashed for my sarcastic hateful attitude about that dump, but I really don't care about that either, cause I really HATED Japan sooo much...it is an instant recipe for disaster,and never-ending suicides...they would be missing someone, and walk into their room, and found them hanging by a rope attached to the ceiling...so I don't need anyone telling me how "great' and how "beautiful such a miserable medicating island is..You complain about it, ( like I did every single minute), and no one else cares what you say, and just keep pumping you with pills to shut you up...I'm really sooo glad to be out of there soo much..I still say it every single day of my life, and thank God every minute, every hour, and every second, and before I go to sleep, and even in my sleep, when I get up in the morning, and even when going somewhere in town here in beautiful Anchorage, Alaska...never again will I step foot on a stupid miserable island, cause I"m used to seeing the big city lights, and the enormous downtown with everything...not trash infested places like Okinawa...(I really can't believe that I"m sayin that because I used to live there, and it just seems so weird it's world-wide news)....If anyone hasn't noticed, I'M NOT AN ISLAND PERSON, SO DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT GOING TO AN ISLAND!!!!!!!! now that I'm done with my rant about Japan, I think that I'll finally go to bed since it's after 3am...
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