The typhoon has left our area and, thankfully, it doesn't seem to have caused ma…

The typhoon has left our area and, thankfully, it doesn’t seem to have caused major problems in Kumamoto Prefecture. Miyazaki, however, was not so lucky. There was both flooding (e.g. the image from a Sankei Shimbun article I have appended) and wind damage. As I wrote earlier, when typhoons come from the south, their counterclockwise spin makes their impact greater on the east side of Kyushu than on the west, where we are. I suspect that the bad results for Miyazaki were due to the fact that the wind and rain that hit them was coming directly from the sea. By the same logic, Kumamoto is more vulnerable when typhoons come from the west or northwest.

– Kirk

http://www.sankei.com/west/photos/160920/wst1609200039-p2.html