TYPHOONS AND COMMON SENSE

Just seen a news story about Typhoon Songda hitting Japan on CNBC. As always they show people head down battling their way down the street, half with their umbrellas open in front of them, half looking at their inside-out and shredded umbrellas in a perplexed and confused state.

How stupid are these people? It's an effing typhoon for Christs sake. Of course it's going to shred your umbrella. And if by some miracle you do manage to hold it perfectly into the wind so that it doesn't get flipped inside out and destroyed all it means is you are effectively creating a huge sail area which is generating maximum wind resistance. You're effectively holding a small spinnaker up in a typhoon and then wondering why you are struggling to make headway against 150+ km/h winds.

For the love of God, people, PUT DOWN THE UMBRELLAS!