in article 3f5c078d$0$2950$df066bcf@news.sexzilla.net, The 2-Belo at
the2belo@msd.biPOKPOKglobe.ne.jp wrote on 9/8/03 1:37 PM:

> Ernest Schaal and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
> 
>> We saw a minor lighting the day before, but none when it got to Tokyo and in
>> the news. I wouldn't be surprised if you are in the Southern part of Gifu,
>> since most of the lighting was near Aichi.
> 
> Nope, actually I'm oop noarth, almost near Takatomi-- oops, excuse me,
> *Yamagata*. Damn these new merged towns.

Maybe that is why we didn't see it. Our big windows face south, toward Mt.
Kinka and the Nagara River.