We recently got hit by the big Typhoon Man-Yi here in Okinawa. It was about Level 5 and came straight through Okinawa and even hit the mainland pretty badly.
Before it came I’d not experienced a typhoon, earthquake, volcano or any other serious weather like that so I wasn’t really sure how big it was going to be. There had been such a build-up to it that I expected chaos, cars rolled over, roofs thrown off and things like that. Fortunately for Okinawa, that didn’t happen, even though this it was the biggest typhoon to hit Okinawa in two or three years.
I took some photos documenting what happened in the the leadup, during the typhoon, and in the aftermath.
This first photo to the left is one I took on the day before the typhoon was due to hit. It’s a photo of the hotel beach and you can see the dark clouds hovering overhead. There were black clouds like this for two days before the typhoon and even people who’ve never experienced a typhoon before (eg; me) could tell something big was coming.
This photo on the right was taken from my balcony at 10.20. The only cars on the road were of people who absolutely had to travel as in serious typhoons like this, holidays are declared so no one 
has to risk going to work or school. We weren’t sure if our minibus to work would come because of the weather, but sure enough it did and I went to work where shops and restaurants were open, but no one was allowed to use the beach or pools. This pic on the left shows more …
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