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Hurricane Season
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They are called "hurricanes" in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. But once you go west across the International Dateline and into the western Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, they're called typhoons. And of course, my Australian grandfather, who had strange and colorful names for just about everything (soy sauce was "elephant sweat" for example), had his own term for hurricanes: "Willy-Willys."
The Navy called them "Willy-Willys" (a nickname) when I was on active duty and before ...... Typhoons generally tend to be stronger than hurricanes, but only because there's warmer water in the western Pacific and thus better conditions for storm development. They are a constant factor in our (my) Pacific flying ....
The Navy called them "Willy-Willys" (a nickname) when I was on active duty and before ...... Typhoons generally tend to be stronger than hurricanes, but only because there's warmer water in the western Pacific and thus better conditions for storm development. They are a constant factor in our (my) Pacific flying ....
Ahh typhoons at Futenma. There I was in a cab on my way back from Gate2 street the wind was so strong I thouhgt it was going to flip the cab, bet the driver was happy for the weight of three corn fed Gaijin in the back to keep his tires on the ground. I get back to my room in the lovely "Cul de Sac Inn" Affectionately called the crack house or first pump dump (all the first pump boots lived there so they could look after the bar). I pass out in my bed waking the next morning to three inches of water on my floor, I was on the second deck but the wind was so hard it drove the water though the door and window frames. Worst hangover experiences of my life.
Good times
Good times
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When I was stationed in Iwakuni, I had a buddy who worked in the station weather office. Whenever he got notice that a typhoon was headed our way, he'd call my roomate and I to pick up his share of the startup capital. We'd then proceed to buy up as much booze, tobacco, porn, cards, etc. that the three of us could afford and stash it in our barracks rooms. Then, when the powers that be locked us up inside for three days while the storm blew through, we'd...uh...SHARE our stockpile with the other Marines in the barracks. For a small fee, that is.
Second time I was in Japan, another typhoon blew through, and spent the entire two days drinking (VERY heavily) with the JMSDF Admiral in charge of their OCS. I'm suprised that I'm not permanently blind from the nasty homemade hooch he served us. Ain't no sake like homemade sake, that's for sure.
Second time I was in Japan, another typhoon blew through, and spent the entire two days drinking (VERY heavily) with the JMSDF Admiral in charge of their OCS. I'm suprised that I'm not permanently blind from the nasty homemade hooch he served us. Ain't no sake like homemade sake, that's for sure.
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