There's an entire typhoon season

Currently we are on typhoon 19, Hagibis, as I mentioned before, and it is going to be a

record-breaking typhoon that is currently churning off the coast of Japan

So we want to show you guys how Japan prepares for typhoons, how we prepare for typhoons

and we want to document a little bit about Typhoon Hagibis

Hopefully it will not be as disastrous as they are saying it's going to be

Typhoon Hagibis

Wrecking havoc across Japan before it's even struck. The day before we suffer from, absolutely no bread!

This is the second Bakery we've been to

the bread's been sold out all day and literally the typhoon hasn't even hit yet

so stock up on your bread at least two days in advance lesson learned from us

Wow, we have announcements

[Japanese annoucement on the typhoon]

[Japanese annoucement on the typhoon]

So just - they're warning people about the Shinkansens

and all the schedules are changing for October 12. Today is October 11

So they're, literally, this is the Japanese message

They're putting them up in other languages on the boards over there

One of the other side effects that you have from the typhoon is

cancellations of almost all transportation, all domestic flights

on both JAL and ANA are canceled. A lot of train lines are going to be canceled for tomorrow

We got the notifications for them now, buses are even canceled, I think in some situations so

Everyone just got to stay home

[English announcement on the typhoon]

Ok, so I think this is one of the drawbacks of being a foreigner in another country

Because I think a lot of the news

That we don't watch

and the newspapers that we don't read [M: are going like] might've warned people

[M]: Y'all need to buckle down

Because our Japanese friends are really starting to panic and worry

they're even telling us to fill our bathtubs with water

just in case everything breaks

Wow. It is a Friday night in Kichijoji, and this is the deadest I've ever seen it

Everybody, I mean, like I know there's a lot of people out right now, but this is like dead for Friday

Everyone is really taking Typhoon Hagibis seriously. They've cleared out grocery stores

Wow, it is really cleared out

Wow look at the.. you see the shelf [S: Nothing] bread [S]: All the bread

Hey, Japan, bread's our thing.

All right

[M]: Give it back it's ours

Gimme back my bread

That means they're closed because of the typhoon. And is this the first door, Simon?

No, take a look at this guy's [S]: All of the stores have these signs on them, all of them

Coco Curry ain't closing. Cos Coco Curry are fuckin champions, you hear me?

Bless you Coco Curry, you guide us through our mageddon. I will be here tomorrow

[M]: It'll be the only place open.

Love you Coco.

Here's something really neat I want to show you.

Japan is so used to having these harsh storms, that we actually have

[shutter closing]

Shutters like this that protect a lot of our windows. Can you see that, so we have them along here

A lot of people usually use their shutters at night because they just want their privacy

We barely ever use this but when it comes to this hurricane, we're actually gonna put this up right now

I actually saw our neighbors who don't have shutters

they put cardboard up against their window because they're so worried about the

[M]: In case the glass cracks yeah

Other things we have in store. We have

I use this outside for my lighting when I work out at night, but I'm gonna use it in here, just in case

there's a power outage. We have in the fridge here, few things of water stored

[M: And we bought conbini food] Yes, just in case

Martina put on some rice that's gonna be cooked at 2 a.m

Just in case the power goes out a little bit after that, you don't want to have half cooked rice

I mean, come on. This is, [M: What are we?] what are we? [M]: Barbarians?

And we also filled our bathtub with water, we just learned about this today

Supposedly if the electricity goes out, then you might not have any water, and if you gotta take a dump-ski

how's it gonna flush? You take some of this water and you throw it down there and that'll help it flush

I know this might seem like we're over-exaggerating, or it might be over-preparing.

I really hope we are over preparing. [M: I do] I hope that this is all unnecessary, but you know what?

It's better safe than sorry.

[M]: I don't want to have poopy poop water all day long because I didn't fill a bathtub. My husband poops a lot!

I just realized I'm talking with my night guard in

That's why you can hear my lisping

[exaggerated lisp] I was lisping so much in my speaking, don't judge me.

No, turn off the lights, no I dont want to see this

Let's nerd out a little bit and talk about weather apps that I love

My favorite one is windy

They have tons of different options of different things you can view including, swells of waves

directions of wind, it's really really neat-o-cheeto

What's really really neat to me, is that you can look at the satellite view, this is live as we speak right now

So this is hurricane, or typhoon, Hagibis

It is churning larger than Japan

I can zoom out and show you guys the entire location of Japan on this map

So with this view you can see Japan

barely underneath the ginormous size which is Hagibis

and this helps you kind of like figure out the pattern or the direction

I mean really it shouldn't help you figure out anything

because I'm not a certified expert in weather map reading

but I personally think the more you get to know what's happening here

Like you start to learn about pressure changes, you start to learn about wind flow

you kind of get an idea for like how the world is working, and how these things can affect everybody around them

So I knew this was gonna come and hit Japan because of this crazy - and there's like this

really big pull. That big pull up there

I have been watching for over a week now, and I thought to myself

I've never seen something pull so hard from like up north

so I thought that it was gonna really pull the typhoon to hit Tokyo

And turns out I was right!

All my studying was for something great! Also, you can click on the side and they have all these other options

so one of the ones I look at a lot is pressure

so if I click on pressure here

you can see that there is a very clear light blue spot

circulating surrounded by blue, and surrounded by green and red and all these other colors

And that low pressure apparently makes for a much more dangerous storm

Now that I didn't know

What I do know is that pressure affects you if you have arthritis, or joint pain, if you get headaches

For me with joint pain because I have EDS - if you didn't know hey, what's up i got EDS

I actually love when it's in low pressure because I feel less pain on my joints

So there's a second app I use for that as well

and this app tells you how the pressure is changing, if it's gonna drop, if it's gonna go up

So, on the 10th the pressure started out in around

1025 barometric pressure

and that's very painful for me. And then as the typhoon approached

you can see it just starting to

absolutely crash. And this is real-time, so now we're here

You can see that it's gonna go so low

this is like 969

Now this is prediction at this point, because I've passed the place of like actual data

but it helps prepare you a little bit for if you're gonna get a headache

or if you're gonna have some kind of problems

And what's neat about this is that I learned about this app only because my friend told me that people in Japan

acknowledge this as a real problem for pain. So windy app and the other app which I

have no idea how to pronounce because there's so much Kanji

It'll be in the info box. So you can always click on it and find them in the App Store

Back to Typhoon Hagibis watch

[Meemers]: I want to be played with. I don't want to be huggle snuggled right now, [S: Alright] serious business

I'm gonna start nibbing you so look at my big eyes.

[S]: Oh, these are playful eyes, aren't they? C'mon [Meemers]: Please get my stick, puncha

[S]: Where's your play stick? [Meemers]: It's over there

[S]: Oh jeez [M]: Oh gosh, so cute

[emergency announcement]

So far Saturday morning, nothing bad has happened

no heavy wind, just a lot of rain so far

The big thing is supposed to happen Saturday night, so I'm gonna try to get some more food today

Let's hope it works out

[S]: What's it saying girl? [M]: Uhh

A tornado just touched down in chiba

A person on Twitter posted it up and the person who posted it lives on a boat

I guess like they seem to have some kind of harbour life

That's really crazy, and the tornado - that, the

Typhoon Hagibis hasn't actually hit landfall yet

but I think we're gonna head out

and we're gonna try to get some shots before the typhoon hits because it still hasn't hit, it's just churning

[S]: Girl I don't know. We're just vloggers, we ain't CNN. Let's just stay in bed

[M]: Look I'm not saying go out on our bikes

I'm saying let's just go down the street and see because apparently it's like a zombie town right now

[S]: hot damnn

iPhone you better be waterproof like you promised!

This is the emptiest I've ever seen Kichijoji on a Saturday

This is insanity

I think one of the most confusing things when we arrived in Asia was hearing 'typhoon season'

because we didn't really know the difference between a typhoon, or tornado, or hurricane

or - it's just like what are these things?

So, let's lay this out. First off typhoon, hurricanes, and cyclones are actually all pretty much the same

it's just different names for different regions as to where this appears

So if it appears in like the north america ocean-y region

we call it a hurricane. If it appears in asia

they call it a typhoon

Now tornado is a different fish to fry because apparently they start in the upper atmosphere and make their way

downwards. They tend to be a little bit stronger

but also a lot shorter in time while something like a typhoon can last for - for days

Now typhoon season in Japan starts around May, usually goes to September, but it's October right now

so this is pretty unusual, but I will say this is typhoon 19 while last year in 2018

there were 29 typhoons that hit. This is what we mean by season

so if you're visiting Japan

You need to keep an eye on these kind of things. Or you can follow me on Instagram

at eatyourkimchi because I do typhoon watch

all the time, weather woman Martina! Also, important fact, this is called a Sou'Wester. It's Canadian

It's from Newfoundland, take a look

This is what the fishermen wear on the boats and I bought this officially when I was in Newfoundland

Because I am a Newfie.

Alright, I'm not sure if you hear me with this mic. Okay, I'm gonna go now, ready?

[public announcement bell]

[M]: Hey everybody go home [S]: Is this an announcement? Go home?

Okay. So this is super weird for Saturday in Kichijoji. This area is usually

cram packed. Now there's nothing here and this never happens

Why are so many people afraid? If you remember last year there was a

typhoon that hit around the Kyoto area and like ripped up a lot of the

airport and a lot of the train station. That one caused a lot of damage and was only 500km wide

This one, is supposedly

1,400 kilometers wide

It's got some of the lowest recorded pressure, ever

and this is definitely the biggest typhoon that's hit since

2000, and probably the biggest storm recorded ever.

I have no idea what's gonna happen. I remember last year

we saw in the park

our trees were ripped up

They just, old beautiful trees, destroyed. What's gonna happen here?

I honestly don't know. And yes Pulitzer, I will accept the prize for this top-notch journalism

as we brave wild nature, for you guys. And YouTube

This is our last video

See you later. [M]: This is our last video? How did it get up there and edited?

[S]: If this is our last video [M]: Who did this [S]: Who edited this

[M]: Who worked on this [S]: Who did this

Mom don't be mad at me. I know you're really mad at me right now, Mom

Mom, I know you're so mad at me right now. I can - I can feel your mom vibes. She's back in Canada

She might be woken in the middle of the night and she's like

'My daughter's outside in a typhoon, what are you doing?' I'm ok Mom. Look, I'm under coverage, it's fine

[S]: I'm okay mama!

It's okay mom, and I got my Newfoundland hat on

We're gonna go check out the park and see how the rivers are overflowing right now

because that's one of the biggest concerns in Japan

They may not even let us since into the park. [S: We'll see] But let's see

I want to see it pre-damage at least. Here we go 行きましょう (Ikimashou - Let's go)

Wow guys this is really deep already

So this is the Kichijoji park, this is Inokashira park, and it is so high - the water

So we're here at Inokashira Koen, which is the park in Kichijoji

that's so beautiful for cherry blossoms and swan boats

and right now

we've already received two to three different

announcement warning saying to stay away from rivers in places

because they tend to flood during typhoons like this

so it's not even just about the wind damage

it's about these rivers overflowing

and if you look here

this is just - look at my boots.

Look at how far in, it's already happening

[S]: Look how close that water is?

Almost up to the same level [M]: Almost up to the surface, yeah

So, it's getting really really high and the typhoon hasn't even hit yet

[S: No] Last year the big typhoon that hit Kichijoji ended up breaking so many of these trees

That washroom got crushed [S: Yeah]

Last year, I think it was hurricane - uh Typhoon Jebi that hit.

I heard the trees cracking from my house [S: Right]

Oh it is starting to pick up yo [S: Really starting to pick up]

Oh my gosh

One of the reasons why the storm is so scary is because the storm that just hit