On 2010-10-19 07:30:45 -0400, riverman said:

...watch the international news from HK in about 3 days. In fact, true
to form, I have plane tickets our from HK airport at 11pm on Friday,
which is precisely the hour, and the location, that all models from
the JTWC predict to worst to be.

Ugh. This has the potential to be very very ugly. You heard it here
first.

Once again, possibly from the middle of it all. :-(

--riverman

It hit the Philippines very hard, and looks like it may increase in
strength on its way to the mainland. I hope you and yours are ok. I
lived through a couple of nasty ones in the 50s while in Japan.

Dave