台風4号

[Jack]

I only know how to feel up Japanese.

[Hammer]

Blasted thing is just passing us up here now. Lots of noise, which is why I'm up at 4:40 in the freakin' morning.

[Jack]

Yeah didn't get any sleep last night. Been in the Tokyo area for 10 years now and I don't remember one hitting us this strong here before.

[canman]

Hugh, when visiting Okinawa a few years back I was struck by how most of the houses were a kind of concrete one story style house, compared to the usual flimsy wooden stuff other Japanese call houses. Does that have anything to do with the number of typhoons that hit the island?
As for Fukushima, I heard they had put out a call for workers to stand around reactor #4 holding a blue tarp to keep the rain off the building! That should keep things safe.

[Gaspard de Coligny]

Hugh, when visiting Okinawa a few years back I was struck by how most of the houses were a kind of concrete one story style house, compared to the usual flimsy wooden stuff other Japanese call houses. Does that have anything to do with the number of typhoons that hit the island?
As for Fukushima, I heard they had put out a call for workers to stand around reactor #4 holding a blue tarp to keep the rain off the building! That should keep things safe.

I'm really not sure the actual radiation around #4 allow for doodz to stand around holding tarps...

[Hugh Jørgen]

Hugh, when visiting Okinawa a few years back I was struck by how most of the houses were a kind of concrete one story style house, compared to the usual flimsy wooden stuff other Japanese call houses. Does that have anything to do with the number of typhoons that hit the island?

Yeah, that and termites.

[chokonen888]

Not sure what prevents the locals from making a decent window, but there you go.

Ancient tradition

Privacy glass don't seal? My place is normally OK but was noisy as fuck last night with the curtains puffing in and out like the windows were Swiss cheese.

God damn, there goes my corn and tomatoes. All the plants in heavy planters tossed all over my balcony.

Same here...it uprooted my lime tree...WTF?!!!

[Gaspard de Coligny]

Horizontal sliding windows arent't exactly the smartest thing to use if you aim for airtight/watertight...

I don't say it can't be done... afterall that's how you close the hangar deck of an aircarrier... But doing it cheaply with left and right moving half windows, and remaining operable by hand... starting to make too much to be successfull...

[vanpa]

Horizontal sliding windows arent't exactly the smartest thing to use if you aim for airtight/watertight...

I don't say it can't be done... afterall that's how you close the hangar deck of an aircarrier... But doing it cheaply with left and right moving half windows, and remaining operable by hand... starting to make too much to be successfull...

Japan has tried fancy foreign windows and found them dissatisfactory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh9L0at14y0

[Hugh Jørgen]

Number five is alive! Ok, just blowing lightly in our ears as it sneaks on past well to the west.

[Hanzo the Razor]

Number five is alive! Ok, just blowing lightly in our ears as it sneaks on past well to the west.

Yeah, it seems like it's going to miss Japan proper.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

As for Fukushima, I heard they had put out a call for workers to stand around reactor #4 holding a blue tarp to keep the rain off the building! That should keep things safe.

[Gaspard de Coligny]

As for Fukushima, I heard they had put out a call for workers to stand around reactor #4 holding a blue tarp to keep the rain off the building! That should keep things safe.

I'm just starting to realise that it might have been a joke...

But i'm still not sure...

IT IS Tepco we're talking aboot afterall...

[Hanzo the Razor]

Hugh, when visiting Okinawa a few years back I was struck by how most of the houses were a kind of concrete one story style house, compared to the usual flimsy wooden stuff other Japanese call houses. Does that have anything to do with the number of typhoons that hit the island?

Yeah, that and termites.

I just saw something on TV about a week ago about why houses in Okinawa are low and surrounded by rock walls and they said it was because of the typhoons. They also said something about roof design but I was only half paying attention. I should probably make it down there someday but whenever I have a vacation I end up leaving the country. I'll probably never see any place in Japan that's more than a 90 minute JR ride away.

[Hugh Jørgen]

Hugh, when visiting Okinawa a few years back I was struck by how most of the houses were a kind of concrete one story style house, compared to the usual flimsy wooden stuff other Japanese call houses. Does that have anything to do with the number of typhoons that hit the island?

Yeah, that and termites.

I just saw something on TV about a week ago about why houses in Okinawa are low and surrounded by rock walls and they said it was because of the typhoons. They also said something about roof design but I was only half paying attention. I should probably make it down there someday but whenever I have a vacation I end up leaving the country. I'll probably never see any place in Japan that's more than a 90 minute JR ride away.

Red tiles cemented in place. For the typhoons. It's the "traditional" Okinawa, that in large part no longer exists. Like everywhere else in Japan.