Blog-IT-o ergo sum jimcapo.com June 2004 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30       May   Jul e-mail me Blog Watch Guilford County Ed Cone.com Blog on the Run Hogg's Blog Mr. Sun Jeff Thigpen Guarino Rusty Sheridan Inside Scoop Billy the Poet Viewfinder Blues Greensboro 101 MAX ROW (rest of world) Jennifer Medlock Liberty for All Strike the Root samizdata.net News Watch Around Guilford Rhino Times HPE NW Observer N&R Neely Chronicle Always Read The New American antiwar.com gold-eagle Birch Blog Sometimes Read yahoo UN Electronic Iraq Asahi News Japan Times Korea Times Times of India   6/22/2004 Taifun The only bad weather we saw on our trip was a rare June taifun (hurricane) for two days.  It was downgraded to a tropical storm as it passed the Fuji/Fujinomiya area but we still saw heavy rain.  The rain pooling in the photo here was basically on the side of a mountain so you can imagine that Japan might be more like Bangaedesh if it was not so mountainous.        The unusual storm did provide a treat Tuesday morning when the taifun clouds lifted leaving an equally rare Fujiboshi - "Mt. Fuji hat." 4:41:23 PM      comment [] © Copyright 2006 Jim Capo e-mail me . Last update: 7/26/2006; 13:08:43 . Back to Top Advertise Here For Freedom