Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Dog? Cat? Rat? Typhoon Wipha!

I just wanted to mention this typhoon hitting China. Nearly 2 million people have been evacuated. With winds of up to 165mph (well maybe not that much, see below), it's apparently the largest Typhoon ever recorded.

They're gonna need all their kung fu to survive!

Here's some science-y tracking information. Apparently 165mph would make it a LEVEL 5 SUPER TYPHOON!!!! which I am sure CNN would love, but the storm trackers are saying it's somewhere between 115-155mph.

Everyone remain calm and please evacuate to the other side of the world.

5 comments:

your small american said...

Holy crap!

Tom said...

It actually turned out to be not so bad. But still. They evacuated 2 million people!

your small american said...

Woah! There are so many people in China that they evacuate 2 million people like it's no big deal. And like, when you have a party like 1.5 million people show up, and that is not a big deal. Or you go out for coffee and 3.4 million people are in line ahead of you. It is good that they do not have democracy because 1.8 billion people would vote and then they would vote down our democracy and we would be in trouble. I am happy having India as the world's largest democracy.

Tom said...

What I am most worried about is that they'll all decide to jump up in the air at the same time and knock earth out of its orbit. Twenty years later we'll be hurtling directly for the sun! This typhoon thing is just a warmup!

your small american said...

If they all gave me one dollar as a present, I would have 5.4 billion dollars!