Sunny days and typhoons

We've had quite a contrast in weather patterns the past few weeks. During the Obon holiday mid-August, we spent the afternoon at a local beach, swimming with Conan and Leif and building sandcastles.

This past friday we spent the day hunkered inside riding out one of the infrequent typhoons that make it up here in Northern Japan. While we did have gusts of winds up to 100km/hr., there was no major damage or flooding. The Kesen river that runs near our house did get dangerously high for a while, before levelling off by the evening.

The Kesen river running beside our street

At the old bridge in town