More people braving the typhoon winds and rain. This man has done the smart thing and closed his umbrella. The wind will destroy your umbrella if you put it up, so it's just best to deal with getting wet. This typhoon came about two weeks ago. Another one just hit last night, altho it wasn't quite as bad in this area. It's interesting how commonplace typhoons and earthquakes are here and how easily I am now accustomed to them. Well, typhoons, at any rate. Earthquakes still scare me a bit. I was woken a few nights ago by a fairly large earthquake that lasted about 20 seconds. Man! That is so SCARY! Sheesh. What can you do but just pray and hope this isn't the big one? Admittedly, it is a bit thrilling, tho. ;)