Louise Bremner and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:

>Dave Fossett <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote:
>
>> Pretty impressive thunderstorm here this evening. 
>
>Agreed--I was trying to come home from Haneda through it. We landed
>before it got there, but the monorail headed straight into it--it was
>directly overhead at Hamamatsucho (simultaneous thunder and lightning,
>in a continous stream), the Yamanote line was down and the Keihin line
>was looking as if it'd follow (after each delay at each station, the
>driver said he'd try for the next station, then see whether he could
>proceed), and the Chuo line was late and packed far tighter than I'm
>used to (but I did get a seat by being first in the rush when the train
>finally arrived). 
>
>> I was looking out of the
>> window watching people rushing home from the station on their bikes with
>> umbrellas bravely raised, and wondered why they weren't worried about being
>> hit by lightning. It turns out that one person not far from here wasn't so
>> lucky, although it sounds like he was on an exposed river bank.
>> http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/20030903ic25.htm
>
>I think you've pointed out why--amidst tall buildings and utility poles,
>there's not much danger of being struck by lightning (although I'd still
>worry about being struck by debris if one of those tall things got hit).

Apparently this did happen: the Diet building, in one of those famous scenes
shown on political news articles with the rotunda under a barrage of lightning,
got hit square in the head by a bolt which broke off three pieces of its granite
facade.

Apparently God doesn't like Koizumi either.


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