HEAVY WEATHER 2013: USAGI!
Sep. 22nd, 2013 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogIt’s a Super Typhoon! AND IT’S HEADED RIGHT FOR US!
Well, almost. Looks like Hong Kong catching a break – Usagi is going to veer about 100 km to the east, so we’ll be spared a direct it. But for a storm over 600km wide, a near-miss pretty much counts as a hit.
Also, for the record, Usagi has been downgraded from a Super Typhoon to a Severe Typhoon. So US media outlets can stop calling it a Super Typhoon any time now.
Still, as I say, small difference here on the ground.
Anyway, the observatory will be raising the No. 8 signal in the next 90 minutes or so. Which means a night landing for Usagi and, as usual, another sleepless night for us.
Meanwhile, it says a lot about me that I can’t hear the name “Usagi” without thinking of this:
Horeshoes and hand grenades,
This is dF
Well, almost. Looks like Hong Kong catching a break – Usagi is going to veer about 100 km to the east, so we’ll be spared a direct it. But for a storm over 600km wide, a near-miss pretty much counts as a hit.
Also, for the record, Usagi has been downgraded from a Super Typhoon to a Severe Typhoon. So US media outlets can stop calling it a Super Typhoon any time now.
Still, as I say, small difference here on the ground.
Anyway, the observatory will be raising the No. 8 signal in the next 90 minutes or so. Which means a night landing for Usagi and, as usual, another sleepless night for us.
Meanwhile, it says a lot about me that I can’t hear the name “Usagi” without thinking of this:
Horeshoes and hand grenades,
This is dF
