Typhoons, Earthquakes etc.

We’ve been now in Japan for less than a week, but we already had a typhoon and an earthquake. But both did not amount to much. The typhoon was announced on tv and people told us it was approaching (September is the typhoon season). But in the end, there was only a bit of wind, nothing spectacular at all.
The earthquake, obviously, was not announced and came on Sunday morning. For a few seconds, the sofa was shaking and then the door of the balcony started rattling, but it was harmless. We decided that emergency measures (such as opening the door so it could not get blocked and go sit under the table) were not needed in this case.
What we had, too, were torrential rainfalls that surprised us on the way home the other day. The first few days, we were essentially living in a hot cloud. After all the rain, it has cooled down a bit, but the temperature remains above 20 degrees Celsius.

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