Gaia

1.       Strong storm steers clear of landfall

Typhoon Songda formed from an area of distributed weather swirling around the Micronesian island of Yap. It steadily gained strength while taking aim on the central Philippines; despite eventually attaining Category 4 force, Songa veered to the north, remaining well off the coast of that country’s central and northern islands. It was expected to eventually affect Japan’s southernmost islands as a much weaker storm. A scary threat to hear about, again depicting the mercy humans are under when describing the weather. It is a blessing to the people of the Philippines that the typhoon missed them, but Japan still worries about the weaker storm to come; there is already so much devastation in Japan, it would be hard to fathom what another storm could lead to in these next months. So, just because Japan is no longer on the front page of the newspaper, doesn’t mean that all their problems are solved over there, they still need support and help to rebuild from all parts of the world- make it evident that you care, don’t just pretend when everyone else is talking about it.