Carlton. I’m not trying to be an alarmist, but according to the tropical storm risk website, we’ve got a serious situation developing, so it would be prudent to start doing basic emergency preparations for the typhoon seemingly headed our way at high strength. The TSR website is known to exaggerate toward worst case scenarios but its 96 hour projection of location and movement of the typhoon now well south of us is disconcerting. If it holds true, we, and northwest Kyushu, may be on the wrong side of a Category 4 storm: