Typhoon Hagibis, this week's TLDR is all about typhoon culture in Japan
There's an entire typhoon season
Currently we are on typhoon 19, Hagibis, as I mentioned before, and it is going to be a
record-breaking typhoon that is currently churning off the coast of Japan
So we want to show you guys how Japan prepares for typhoons, how we prepare for typhoons
and we want to document a little bit about Typhoon Hagibis
Hopefully it will not be as disastrous as they are saying it's going to be
Typhoon Hagibis
Wrecking havoc across Japan before it's even struck. The day before we suffer from, absolutely no bread!
This is the second Bakery we've been to
the bread's been sold out all day and literally the typhoon hasn't even hit yet
so stock up on your bread at least two days in advance lesson learned from us
Wow, we have announcements
[Japanese annoucement on the typhoon]
So just - they're warning people about the Shinkansens
and all the schedules are changing for October 12. Today is October 11
So they're, literally, this is the Japanese message
They're putting them up in other languages on the boards over there
One of the other side effects that you have from the typhoon is
cancellations of almost all transportation, all domestic flights
on both JAL and ANA are canceled. A lot of train lines are going to be canceled for tomorrow
We got the notifications for them now, buses are even canceled, I think in some situations so
Everyone just got to stay home
[English announcement on the typhoon]
Ok, so I think this is one of the drawbacks of being a foreigner in another country
Because I think a lot of the news
That we don't watch
and the newspapers that we don't read [M: are going like] might've warned people
[M]: Y'all need to buckle down
Because our Japanese friends are really starting to panic and worry
they're even telling us to fill our bathtubs with water
just in case everything breaks
Wow. It is a Friday night in Kichijoji, and this is the deadest I've ever seen it
Everybody, I mean, like I know there's a lot of people out right now, but this is like dead for Friday
Everyone is really taking Typhoon Hagibis seriously. They've cleared out grocery stores
Wow, it is really cleared out
Wow look at the.. you see the shelf [S: Nothing] bread [S]: All the bread
Hey, Japan, bread's our thing.
All right
[M]: Give it back it's ours
Gimme back my bread
That means they're closed because of the typhoon. And is this the first door, Simon?
No, take a look at this guy's [S]: All of the stores have these signs on them, all of them
Coco Curry ain't closing. Cos Coco Curry are fuckin champions, you hear me?
Bless you Coco Curry, you guide us through our mageddon. I will be here tomorrow
[M]: It'll be the only place open.
Love you Coco.
Here's something really neat I want to show you.
Japan is so used to having these harsh storms, that we actually have
[shutter closing]
Shutters like this that protect a lot of our windows. Can you see that, so we have them along here
A lot of people usually use their shutters at night because they just want their privacy
We barely ever use this but when it comes to this hurricane, we're actually gonna put this up right now
I actually saw our neighbors who don't have shutters
they put cardboard up against their window because they're so worried about the
[M]: In case the glass cracks yeah
Other things we have in store. We have
I use this outside for my lighting when I work out at night, but I'm gonna use it in here, just in case
there's a power outage. We have in the fridge here, few things of water stored
[M: And we bought conbini food] Yes, just in case
Martina put on some rice that's gonna be cooked at 2 a.m
Just in case the power goes out a little bit after that, you don't want to have half cooked rice
I mean, come on. This is, [M: What are we?] what are we? [M]: Barbarians?
And we also filled our bathtub with water, we just learned about this today
Supposedly if the electricity goes out, then you might not have any water, and if you gotta take a dump-ski
how's it gonna flush? You take some of this water and you throw it down there and that'll help it flush
I know this might seem like we're over-exaggerating, or it might be over-preparing.
I really hope we are over preparing. [M: I do] I hope that this is all unnecessary, but you know what?
It's better safe than sorry.
[M]: I don't want to have poopy poop water all day long because I didn't fill a bathtub. My husband poops a lot!
I just realized I'm talking with my night guard in
That's why you can hear my lisping
[exaggerated lisp] I was lisping so much in my speaking, don't judge me.
No, turn off the lights, no I dont want to see this
Let's nerd out a little bit and talk about weather apps that I love
My favorite one is windy
They have tons of different options of different things you can view including, swells of waves
directions of wind, it's really really neat-o-cheeto
What's really really neat to me, is that you can look at the satellite view, this is live as we speak right now
So this is hurricane, or typhoon, Hagibis
It is churning larger than Japan
I can zoom out and show you guys the entire location of Japan on this map
So with this view you can see Japan
barely underneath the ginormous size which is Hagibis
and this helps you kind of like figure out the pattern or the direction
I mean really it shouldn't help you figure out anything
because I'm not a certified expert in weather map reading
but I personally think the more you get to know what's happening here
Like you start to learn about pressure changes, you start to learn about wind flow
you kind of get an idea for like how the world is working, and how these things can affect everybody around them
So I knew this was gonna come and hit Japan because of this crazy - and there's like this
really big pull. That big pull up there
I have been watching for over a week now, and I thought to myself
I've never seen something pull so hard from like up north
so I thought that it was gonna really pull the typhoon to hit Tokyo
And turns out I was right!
All my studying was for something great! Also, you can click on the side and they have all these other options
so one of the ones I look at a lot is pressure
so if I click on pressure here
you can see that there is a very clear light blue spot
circulating surrounded by blue, and surrounded by green and red and all these other colors
And that low pressure apparently makes for a much more dangerous storm
Now that I didn't know
What I do know is that pressure affects you if you have arthritis, or joint pain, if you get headaches
For me with joint pain because I have EDS - if you didn't know hey, what's up i got EDS
I actually love when it's in low pressure because I feel less pain on my joints
So there's a second app I use for that as well
and this app tells you how the pressure is changing, if it's gonna drop, if it's gonna go up
So, on the 10th the pressure started out in around
1025 barometric pressure
and that's very painful for me. And then as the typhoon approached
you can see it just starting to
absolutely crash. And this is real-time, so now we're here
You can see that it's gonna go so low
this is like 969
Now this is prediction at this point, because I've passed the place of like actual data
but it helps prepare you a little bit for if you're gonna get a headache
or if you're gonna have some kind of problems
And what's neat about this is that I learned about this app only because my friend told me that people in Japan
acknowledge this as a real problem for pain. So windy app and the other app which I
have no idea how to pronounce because there's so much Kanji
It'll be in the info box. So you can always click on it and find them in the App Store
Back to Typhoon Hagibis watch
[Meemers]: I want to be played with. I don't want to be huggle snuggled right now, [S: Alright] serious business
I'm gonna start nibbing you so look at my big eyes.
[S]: Oh, these are playful eyes, aren't they? C'mon [Meemers]: Please get my stick, puncha
[S]: Where's your play stick? [Meemers]: It's over there
[S]: Oh jeez [M]: Oh gosh, so cute
[emergency announcement]
So far Saturday morning, nothing bad has happened
no heavy wind, just a lot of rain so far
The big thing is supposed to happen Saturday night, so I'm gonna try to get some more food today
Let's hope it works out
[S]: What's it saying girl? [M]: Uhh
A tornado just touched down in chiba
A person on Twitter posted it up and the person who posted it lives on a boat
I guess like they seem to have some kind of harbour life
That's really crazy, and the tornado - that, the
Typhoon Hagibis hasn't actually hit landfall yet
but I think we're gonna head out
and we're gonna try to get some shots before the typhoon hits because it still hasn't hit, it's just churning
[S]: Girl I don't know. We're just vloggers, we ain't CNN. Let's just stay in bed
[M]: Look I'm not saying go out on our bikes
I'm saying let's just go down the street and see because apparently it's like a zombie town right now
[S]: hot damnn
iPhone you better be waterproof like you promised!
This is the emptiest I've ever seen Kichijoji on a Saturday
This is insanity
I think one of the most confusing things when we arrived in Asia was hearing 'typhoon season'
because we didn't really know the difference between a typhoon, or tornado, or hurricane
or - it's just like what are these things?
So, let's lay this out. First off typhoon, hurricanes, and cyclones are actually all pretty much the same
it's just different names for different regions as to where this appears
So if it appears in like the north america ocean-y region
we call it a hurricane. If it appears in asia
they call it a typhoon
Now tornado is a different fish to fry because apparently they start in the upper atmosphere and make their way
downwards. They tend to be a little bit stronger
but also a lot shorter in time while something like a typhoon can last for - for days
Now typhoon season in Japan starts around May, usually goes to September, but it's October right now
so this is pretty unusual, but I will say this is typhoon 19 while last year in 2018
there were 29 typhoons that hit. This is what we mean by season
so if you're visiting Japan
You need to keep an eye on these kind of things. Or you can follow me on Instagram
at eatyourkimchi because I do typhoon watch
all the time, weather woman Martina! Also, important fact, this is called a Sou'Wester. It's Canadian
It's from Newfoundland, take a look
This is what the fishermen wear on the boats and I bought this officially when I was in Newfoundland
Because I am a Newfie.
Alright, I'm not sure if you hear me with this mic. Okay, I'm gonna go now, ready?
[public announcement bell]
[M]: Hey everybody go home [S]: Is this an announcement? Go home?
Okay. So this is super weird for Saturday in Kichijoji. This area is usually
cram packed. Now there's nothing here and this never happens
Why are so many people afraid? If you remember last year there was a
typhoon that hit around the Kyoto area and like ripped up a lot of the
airport and a lot of the train station. That one caused a lot of damage and was only 500km wide
This one, is supposedly
1,400 kilometers wide
It's got some of the lowest recorded pressure, ever
and this is definitely the biggest typhoon that's hit since
2000, and probably the biggest storm recorded ever.
I have no idea what's gonna happen. I remember last year
we saw in the park
our trees were ripped up
They just, old beautiful trees, destroyed. What's gonna happen here?
I honestly don't know. And yes Pulitzer, I will accept the prize for this top-notch journalism
as we brave wild nature, for you guys. And YouTube
This is our last video
See you later. [M]: This is our last video? How did it get up there and edited?
[S]: If this is our last video [M]: Who did this [S]: Who edited this
[M]: Who worked on this [S]: Who did this
Mom don't be mad at me. I know you're really mad at me right now, Mom
Mom, I know you're so mad at me right now. I can - I can feel your mom vibes. She's back in Canada
She might be woken in the middle of the night and she's like
'My daughter's outside in a typhoon, what are you doing?' I'm ok Mom. Look, I'm under coverage, it's fine
[S]: I'm okay mama!
It's okay mom, and I got my Newfoundland hat on
We're gonna go check out the park and see how the rivers are overflowing right now
because that's one of the biggest concerns in Japan
They may not even let us since into the park. [S: We'll see] But let's see
I want to see it pre-damage at least. Here we go 行きましょう (Ikimashou - Let's go)
Wow guys this is really deep already
So this is the Kichijoji park, this is Inokashira park, and it is so high - the water
So we're here at Inokashira Koen, which is the park in Kichijoji
that's so beautiful for cherry blossoms and swan boats
and right now
we've already received two to three different
announcement warning saying to stay away from rivers in places
because they tend to flood during typhoons like this
so it's not even just about the wind damage
it's about these rivers overflowing
and if you look here
this is just - look at my boots.
Look at how far in, it's already happening
[S]: Look how close that water is?
Almost up to the same level [M]: Almost up to the surface, yeah
So, it's getting really really high and the typhoon hasn't even hit yet
[S: No] Last year the big typhoon that hit Kichijoji ended up breaking so many of these trees
That washroom got crushed [S: Yeah]
Last year, I think it was hurricane - uh Typhoon Jebi that hit.
I heard the trees cracking from my house [S: Right]
Oh it is starting to pick up yo [S: Really starting to pick up]
Oh my gosh
One of the reasons why the storm is so scary is because the storm that just hit
Bahamas, Dori I think it was, the pressure was recorded at 910
and that's really bad. This storm, the pressure was recorded at
900, that's super low, that's some of the lowest recorded ever. And if you saw what happened in Bahamas
I don't know what's gonna happen to Tokyo if it keeps up with that same pressure
but this looks pretty intense so far and we haven't even started yet
I think it's time for us to go home girl. [M]: Yeah I think it's time to go home, we've got ourselves rice
We got ourselves some footage [S: Alright] we'll continue this
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shit
oh fuck
[M:] Tie it with your strings!
[S]: oh fuck come on!
[M]: You need to tie it with your strings!!
[S]: Nooo
[M]: Stop under the tree there
[S]: Damn [M]: Everything is closed
7-11's closed
Seiyu's closed
[S]: Nooooooooo
Damn Coco, they didn't have the sign up yesterday, so I thought we could trust them
[M]: Well, they - I think everything's closing in the afternoon.
[S]: Yeah, everything's closing afternoon, homies pulling a sign-in
Yeah, this is [M]: Everyone needs to get home
It's starting to get windy [S: Everyone needs to get home]
[M]: We need to get home, really blustery out [S]: This is starting to get -
[M]: Really bad [S]:It really hurt my face, with that wind
No I didn't get any call from the Japanese government, but I did get an email from the Canadian government
So, but, yes the Canadian Embassy has emailed us but
So three meters, okay
In Musashino, Kichijoji, there's flooding. Okay
It's our - our house is higher so that's okay.
I think. Okay.
Wonderful. Thank you so much for calling!
Okay, take care bye bye
Well, that was my neighbour [M: Yeah]
Uhhh who just gave - who called
like the neighbor that we went to [M: Right down the street yeah] yeah right down the street, who we see often
He was like, 'Yeah, I just got a call from the Japanese government. Just trying to give a special warning.
Did you get a call?' And I'm like, 'I didn't get no call?!'
[M: No] No government called me!
[M]: 'Kay well, so thank goodness for Twitter. [S: Okay] Okay, because
Also I'm all snotty-eyed because I feel so sad for Japan [S]: Hey don't be - it's okay
We're gonna be alright, girl.
[M]: I know we'll probably be okay [S: Right]
but I'm like really worried seeing all the videos coming out [S: Yeah the flooding is wild now]
because it's like, [S]: He said there's flooding, actually, in Musashino
So that park that we just recorded, we can't go there now
[M]: Of course it was going to flood
We said it - that's definitely gonna flood [S]: So our house is like a little bit more
elevated, like it's a little bit of a hill, so I think we're in a better position
but still this is [M]: I know, but, exactly like [S]: This is scary here
[M]: Twitter is starting to update people with evacuation notices
and these are cities that don't normally get hit
Whoa
[S: Woah]
Uh oh, my mom is gonna f r e a k out
[singing] hopefully she doesn't get this update and watch it right way
We're fine, we're ok [S: We're fine mom!] right now mom! [S: We're fine mom]
It's only, it's 5:54. That's it?
It looks like apocalypse, now -
I mean, we're fine [S: We're fine]
I'm going to just move electronics off the floor
and we'll be fine!