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Email from my mother about the typhoon headed for Samoa:
Hi Folks,
Just a note to let you know that there is a typhoon headed for Samoa, with the worst being at about 4 p.m. our time today. Right now, it's rated as a "cyclonic storm" but will go to typhoon (what we in the northern hemisphere call a hurricane) shortly. [My brother] E's island is right in the path.
The school evacuated their beach-side location yesterday and moved everyone up to a safe (and dry) location in the mountains, but E will definitely have an experience we never have had of being in the midst of a tropical storm on an island in the middle of the ocean and of being involved in the post-disaster clean-up and re-building. However, he'll be very safe and far away from the 43 ft. waves expected.
Safe is good. But damn it, far away is just not. Experience exshmerience, I wish I could swoop down and snatch him up off those islands and take him far away from typhoons and other scary natural forces.
Hi Folks,
Just a note to let you know that there is a typhoon headed for Samoa, with the worst being at about 4 p.m. our time today. Right now, it's rated as a "cyclonic storm" but will go to typhoon (what we in the northern hemisphere call a hurricane) shortly. [My brother] E's island is right in the path.
The school evacuated their beach-side location yesterday and moved everyone up to a safe (and dry) location in the mountains, but E will definitely have an experience we never have had of being in the midst of a tropical storm on an island in the middle of the ocean and of being involved in the post-disaster clean-up and re-building. However, he'll be very safe and far away from the 43 ft. waves expected.
Safe is good. But damn it, far away is just not. Experience exshmerience, I wish I could swoop down and snatch him up off those islands and take him far away from typhoons and other scary natural forces.
posted by The Stute Fish at 21:17
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