rainy day

That hardly captures it. September is typhoon season. A couple days ago, there were two typhoons near Japan, and we felt the effects. The train line that we live on had an accident on Friday - one of the electric wires they run on broke (due to the strong winds and rain), so the trains stopped running. Our head office called and told us we'd need to take a taxi to the nearest station on another train line. We got ready quickly, packing our work clothes, including a second pair of socks and shoes, in plastic bags and then in our backpacks. We sloshed through water on the sidewalks, our umbrellas flopping around in the wind, for about 20 minutes, on our way to the taxi stand. We took a $30 taxi ride (at least the company will pay for it) thoroughly soaked, and then hopped on a train for a couple stops. Jesse went to the airport that day to pick up a new teacher, and ended up sitting in the airport for over five hours. The plane was due in at 2:10. Apparently, they diverted it to an army base, where it sat for a bit and re-fueled, then flew back to Narita, circled, and finally landed at 7:20. Jesse and the new teacher didn't end up getting to their destination until 10pm, due to trains that were both very late, and very slow. He took another taxi home. While I was at my school teaching that day, rain pelted the windows, water steadily streaming down them all day. All in all, it rained from Thursday night to Saturday morning. I don't know how many inches we ended up getting, but I am going to guess a lot. Today, it's 75 degrees and beautiful. It looks like a different world out there!