Fair enough. Now it is 2005, that was 1995.
But on Dec. 29 2004 a small quake shattered the roof of a pachinko parlor in Hokkaido, and the roof fell on two customers who were just relaxing ahead of New Year. BOOM! The only two fatalities.
Harbinger Clouds
A week later a couple of quakes in Tohoku, and I sensed they were moving closer. Spooky, bad intuition.
On about the 12th or 13th I wrote a Bloomberg email to my clients - Fidelity, GIC, Warburgs, telling them not to consider it official Morgan Stanley news, but my personal intution. I suggested they buy Osaka stock to guard against the quake I sensed would hit Tokyo next.
I was wrong. At 7:47am on Jan. 17, 2005 I woke up in my Hiroo living room (note, sleeping in the living room, not in the bedroom as our marriage was on the rocks) and the windchimes caught the ground motion and woke me up.
Since then I have learned that electronic disturbances can create odd cloud patterns in the ten days prior to a MAJOR quake. These horizontal lines of cloud are one of the 4-5 distinct patterns in the series, leading up to a thick mushroom cloud like vertical column, 24-48 hours before the quake.
These might just be jet contrails. But look at the density and the vertical lines. The time was about 345pm today, in a clear sky in East Shinagawa. I rushed to buy a "baka-chon" 35mm instant camera having left my cell phone at home. I was at Immmigration for 3 hours waiting to submmit my renewal application.
If a vertical column appears in 4-5 days, I am moving out of time with family and friends. Watch this space.
Message from naruhodo1
at 8:16 PM JST
