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Hello Everyone!

Today I would like to talk about my experiences with the recent typhoon, Noru. Where I'm from in America, Ohio, we don't get typhoons; in fact, they're not even called typhoons but rather called hurricanes. In any case, as we don't get them where I was born and raised, I have never been taught how to prepare for them nor have I had to worry about them. Well, then I decided to live in Japan. The recent typhoon Noru was not my first typhoon, but I thought it would be my first real typhoon; I was wrong.
When I lived in Tokyo (Shiki, Saitama to be exact), a typhoon came and went as well, but it was just a lot of rain, as I was much more inland and the typhoon had weakened significantly before deciding it wanted to swing into my neighborhood. I remember thinking, "this is it?". Well, fast forward to last week: typhoon Noru, a category 5 storm at one point, decides to change course and blow directly towards us. I'm thinking that I will finally get to experience a real typhoon, you know, like the ones you see on the NEWS channel where the reporter lady gets blown away while reporting on the weather. Ha! It barely even rained here in Shikokuchuo-shi. I'm accustomed to worse thunderstorms in Ohio than what Noru brought to us. While I'm happy that we were safe, and we took all the major precautions, I have to admit that I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't a storm that produced more of a show. I have little-to-no fear of storms, enjoy watching them, and have parents who chased tornados when I was a small child, so I was hoping for a little more excitement. Oh well, maybe the next one will give me something a little more interesting.