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Typhoon 16W (Bolaven): Tell your tale of typhoon woe

By Dave Ornauer
Published: August 26, 2012

As always, Murphy’s Law seems to strike at the ultimately worst times, throwing a steel rod into the fan of the engine of your weekend plans. Especially since this is the final weekend before school starts, which it likely won’t on Monday for some students in the Pacific, given Typhoon Bolaven’s forecast proximity to Okinawa.

That might be a silver lining in the clouds for your children. But what of the rest of us?

Is your place flooding? A window broken? Has the power gone off? Car damaged? Did your weekend plans to go to Okuma to chill out before school starts get canceled, as perhaps a number of people’s flights to the States or around the region?

Sound off. Tell Storm Tracker in the comment section below of your Typhoon Bolaven tale of woe.
 

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About the Author


Dave Ornauer has been with Stars and Stripes since March 5, 1981. One of his first assignments as a beat reporter in the old Japan News Bureau was “typhoon chaser,” a task which he resumed virtually full time since 2004, the year after his job, as a sports writer-photographer, moved to Okinawa and Ornauer with it.

As a typhoon reporter, Ornauer pores over Web sites managed by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center as well as U.S. government, military and local weather outlets for timely, topical information. Pacific Storm Tracker is designed to take the technical lingo published on those sites and simplify it for the average Stripes reader.