Typhoons R Us: And will this mean less rice in six months?

 We had two typhoons pass us up north, and then they hit China.

We got rain, but apparently China got hit badly with rain.

Is the US MSM following the floods in China? 

and the floods hit about the same time there are rumors of problems with the military and big shot politicians.

from a Chinese site

Yup. it's from the typhoon the went north of here and destroyed the extreme north of Luzon. Nothing new with this: happens all the time.

But although we didn't get a direct hit here in central Luzon,  and resulted in heavy monsoon rains being sucked into our area and flooding our rice fields. Then a second typhoon went way north and again gave us heavy monsoon rains, but hit China but no wind here.

since the monsoon rains were being sucked in from the west, it was/is hitting Pampanga and Bulacan more than our area, 

Pagasa tells residents living near Angat river basin in Bulacan to prepare for possible floods. https://t.co/r023OdJ0CE

— Inquirer (@inquirerdotnet) August 3, 2023

and the real problem is that the irrigation dams could overtop and collapse. When this threatens, they open the dam to lower the water level, and you get mild flooding instead of a deluge.

But they are preparing: They put the signs up with arrows to the nearby city gym, which is our evacuation center. The low lying houses of the poorer neighborhood  near the river are frequently flooded and even destroyed from previous flooding. Usually folk move in with neighbors and friends but some have to to the evac centers.

Our house is two feet above street level, and has a second floor, so we should be okay. The last time we flooded,  it was when they opened the gates to lower the water, and we got 3 inches inside the house. The street however had a foot of water, and the neighbors asked if they could move their cars and trucks into our garage and storage areas to protect the engines.

The real problem with the flooding/heavy rain is that the newly planted rice will be flooded or wash away. It is early enough in the season to replant, of course, but that is one more expense at a time when diesel, fertilizer, etc prices are high and it costs more to get a crop.

When it dries a bit we will have to replant a lot of the seedling rice that got washed away. Sigh.

so I wonder if this also means crop damage to China's rice fields.

Then we have other rumors coming out of China that might or might not mean anything:

and

more confusion in Chinese politics

Sigh. In our prayers.

One does hope that China won't decide to start a war to distract their people from all of these problems aka WagTheDog.

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there are stories out there that the steam released by a Tonga Volcano might be behind the weather changes this year. NASA LINK

he Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption on Jan. 15, 2022, caused many effects, some illustrated here, that were felt around the world and even into space. Some of those effects, like extreme winds and unusual electric currents were picked up by NASA’s ICON mission and ESA’s (the European Space Agency) Swarm. Image not to scale.

Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith