From Looney Tunes to Typhooney Tunes

Holy smokes! There's a typhoon a blowin! It's passed two a.m. on Wednesday morning. What's been reported as a class 8 typhoon, Hagupit (nice name) seems to be passing Shenzhen right now. We were let out of work early to prepare for it's arrival. I crashed out earlier tonight. But now I'm wide awake listening to a cacophony of bangs, slams, thuds, and a screaming wind. The windows in the bathrooms face the center of the building. There are fans over the windows creating a ghostly whine reminding me of Kurosawa's exaggerated wind effects used in his final duel scene in Yojimbo. A glance outside the window I can clearly see trees bent almost at right angles, and only a few cars on the roads. They all appear to be cabs. Across the street there's an enormous pit that is under 24hr construction. It is stopped for the moment but I see the beam of a flashlight bouncing around. A foreman perhaps checking on his machines. On the news ( Hong Kong channel-only one of 3 I get in English) an emergency weather report just showed the projected path of Hagupit. It 's veering west of HK. But just like every other show I watch on this damn channel it is interrupted by propaganda commercials. A practice I'm told used by mainland censors that decide when a program is over stepping it's bounds. Some ladies show is now on. OK I'm off to bed. I'll write about what I wake up to.