Sanba dancing

                                                                                                                                                                                    courtesy of NASA

No, that wasn't a typo in the title. Son of a gun, but there's another typhoon heading toward Korea. But Typhoon Sanba looks like it'll turn out to be another marginal Category 1, a puissant tropical storm like Bolaven.

There's nothing borderline about it right now, though. According to this news story, on Friday, when the typhoon was in the vicinity of Okinawa, it was a Category 3 "super typhoon." It had winds in excess of 125 miles per hour. Early Saturday, according to another story I found, Sanba was a Category 4 with winds peaking at 155 mph—as strong as Hurricane Maemi, which smashed into Korea in 2003 and left over a hundred dead.

However, most sources believe that Sanba's back will be broken by the Japanese islands, and by the time it reaches the Korean peninsula, it'll be a Category 1, or even less—a tropical storm.

It was still severe enough that the U.S. consulate sent out a warning to all expatriates living in the R.O.K., though. I guess it's time to batten down the hatches. Miss H and I have no preparations to make: our emergency supplies are laid in and everything is set. I just need to peel the tape off the cupboard doors, reach in, and close up the air conditioning vents. Then we can sit back and watch the cows fly by.

Zowie! Wish us luck.