Comment on Three people ‘sucked out’ of apartments as they slept by typhoon-like winds in China
Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 5 months agoPoint 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.
TIL! I had never heard the typhoon was used for both tornados and hurricanes in China, had just heard of their Typhoon rating sytem that seems to apply more to what would be called a hurricane in the states.
But the storm in the article was not a tornado. The 3 people who were pulled from their homes lived in a high rise, and had large windows that failed in the wind, and they were blown out.
RandomStickman@kbin.run 5 months ago
Which dialect? I call typhoon 颱風 and tornado 龍捲風