evacuating for typhoon X
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Kokubunji, 2020.09.06
Mari's parents are evacuating in advance of typhoon X. It's not clear that they should expect any damage, but the typhoon is being compared to hurricane Katrina in size and ferocity, and they live immediately adjacent to a stream in a valley with a flat bottom (rice paddies). Mari was advising her mum on some of the little stuff to remember, such as cell phone chargers. They're going to stay at the same gym that we visited in December.
There's another property with a house on it in the family that's immediately adjacent to a scrubby slope that is in real danger of landslides, but happily (in this case) it's unoccopied.