It's natural disaster time in Japan

The rain just doesn't stop. There are floods all over the place here and people are all dying and stuff, very untidy indeed. This morning they had a reporter at the scene of some flooding and for some reason she seemed to think it was a secret of some description that the water was accumulating, rather than just running off like it usually does and was kind of bent forward towards the camera from under her umbrella all stage whispering and stuff and conspiratorially gesturing towards a woman attempting to ride her bike through the water that was up to her mid-thigh (so, my knee). The camera all sneakily zooms in and she says with great drama, "the floodying is so bad that people are having trouble riding their bikes..." poignant pause while we all reflect upon the absolute lunacy of attempting to ride a bike through flood waters. The Japanese are great like that, whenever there is some kind of natural diaster going on they just keep trying to go about life like normal - that's why you always see pictures of women struggling in vain to keep their umbrellas above their heads even though a typhoon is buffeting them with 100kmph winds. Just give it UP!! Let the umbrella go, you are already wet anyway, just concentrate on getting inside where the chances of you being sliced in half by a flying piece of crap picked up by the wind are somewhat slimmer. Seriously, even a Japanese bloke would much rather have you alive than with perfect hair.