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On Wednesday July 7th, a typhoon swept through Japan killing 36 people. A typhoon is a seasonal disaster that is most common in the Nothwestern Pacific. In particular, the Phillipines are most prone to these disasters, seeing up to 20 typhoons per year. A typhoon, to put it simply, is a water cyclone or a whirlwind. With this comes damaged homes, displaced refuges, and death. The recent Japanese Typhoon hit the main island of Luzon with wind speeds up to 120 kilometers per hour. The number of damaged homes increased from 500 to 11,230, and as of now, the number of utterly destroyed homes count up to 900. The typhoon settled down by late Tuesday, but now heavy rains are to be expected in Southern China and other regions in the Philippines.


Here in California and the United States, typhoons are not a common disaster, and so we do not realize the nature of these disasters. From a Californian perspective, the only significant disaster we face is the Earthquake. Both are extremely dangerous in their own ways. And earthquake comes from the ground and shakes the floor; a typhoon comes from the sky and water and rips apart a home. The damage is undeniable, and the only thing a person can do in such a situation is to sit tight though the disaster and help in reconstruction after.