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Three people ‘sucked out’ of apartments as they slept by typhoon-like winds in China

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BREAKING NEWS: We have learned now, the apartment windows were installed by Boeing employees.
Cyclones are also known as hurricanes and tornadoes in the US while they are known as typhoons in China and Japan. So, think tornado if you're in the US.
- A typhoon is what we call a hurricane when it is over the northwest Pacific Ocean. A tornado is a very different event. A hurricane covers an area 1000x or more larger than a tornado, but the tornado has significatly higher wind speeds, and is much more dangerous if you are directly under it, but you will likely be fine standing in your yard half a mile away. As many cell phone videos show. Until it turns towards you, because they don't always travel in consistant directions. As many cell phone videos show.
  
  Point is that the Chinese call both tornados and hurricanes typhoons, not what you call them.
  I've been through both a number of times, so don't need an instruction.
  Best time: under a craps table in a casino during a hurricane
  Most terrified: was hiking in a forest when the tornado hit. Broke trees and sent them flying. Hung onto a rock.
- that makes more sense then. tornadoes suck big time.
Lived though quite a few typhoons but I've never heard anything like this happened before. What a terrible way to go.
Correction sir: that’s ‘blown out’.
Uhhhhhh

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