Typhoon #22 had hit Tokyo the past weekend (Saturday & Sunday). Well, what can I say… after being hit by a 5.7-scale earthquake just 3 days before (Wednesday), the next thing serving up on the list was Typhoon #22.
Not as scary as the earthquake, but it wasn’t a walk in the park either. There were serveral casualties, may their souls rest in peace.
I was out for a while on Saturday afternoon, seeing how it was only a drizzle at that time and didn’t expect to get caught in the thick of the action. The typhoon hit full force by about 7pm when I was walking my 2km route home after having dinner at the GyuDon place. The umbrella was useless, I was drenched from head to toe coz the rain was coming in from all sides. At about every 20-second interval, I had to hide behind the concrete walls of nearby houses because the wind was too strong to safely walk on the road without being blown off your balance - and away (!). This continued on till I finally reached home.
Well, over the course of Saturday, Sunday and Monday when the typhoon was happily going about its business blowing all of Tokyo into a huge mess of fallen tree branches, leaves, garbage cans and other miscellaneous stuff that was not nailed down to the ground, I stayed in the saftey of my room and discovered I had some time on my hands to turn on my consoles and spend some quality time with them.
I’ve been buying games and playing games but had not have enough time on my hands to really sit down and play through the games and finish them. Well, I finally played through Return to Castle Wolfenstien, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge and Beyond Good & Evil to the end during this period.
