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THE TYPHOON THAT ISN'T HERE

This time of year we usually have several typhoons of varying degrees of severity, but this year we haven't had any, including the one that hasn't been passing through for the last two days. Generally we know typhoons are coming and get ready, but you can't prepare for what isn't there. In the case of the current typhoon that isn't there, that didn't pass through two nights ago, all day yesterday and last night (there are no size or time constraints on non-present weather events) and isn't still gussying around in forest-sized windy snitfits, the caught-by-surprise landscape has been adjusted varying distances toward the south. The train was stopped from Omi-Imazu to Katata, a big cedar blew down right outside the window of our bathing room (fortunately parallel to the house), the deck and garden look like the floor of an ancient forest where for some odd reason peppers, ginger and basil formerly grew, and the firewood is all uncovered. The bicycle tarps were last sighted over Shanghai. Pretty good for a typhoon that wasn't there. I'm voting for an extant weather system.