Ok, we have finally reached tropical cyclone conditions of readiness (I found out what TCCOR means) of 1 emergency. This means that we have to stay indoors and abstain from drinking alcoholic beverages. Dawn, mom and I have decided to drink margaritas and run out into the rain naked after the children go to bed. There are plenty of trees for us to dance around and since the visibility is low, we shouldn't annoy the neighbors too much. Maybe the MP's will come and take us away since we are going a little stir crazy anyway. Of course once they find out that we are entertaining 5 children they will run from the responsibility and here we will still be. Oh well.
John (brother in-law) and Matthew (son #2) are in the states so they are missing the Kompasu experience. Evidently there hasn't been a typhoon of this magnitude in Okinawa since 2007, gee aren't we all lucky. The sky is getting darker and we have to listen to AFN (Armed Forces Network) The Wave for the latest updates. This is the STRANGEST radio station. They have a special typhoon broadcast interspersed with music from Eminem to Gretchen Wilson. When Dawn and I went to the video store we heard "Play that Funky Music White Boy" and then on the way home REM. We sang "It's the end of the world as we know it..." in between many giggles.
The children alternate between laughing and crying, they must have assigned turns because it's never simultaneously. It's almost 7:00, the girls should be going to bed soon. I'd better go get those margaritas ready!
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