00:02 John Daub: Greetings everybody. So this is the supermarket. Kanae and I came back from Fukuoka last night. Our Jetstar flight from Fukuoka back to Narita was cancelled. It was supposed to depart at 8pm. We had to take the last Shinkansen at 5:35 that got into Tokyo around that time. And we just made it back to Tokyo late last night. Nothing in our refrigerator. We came to the supermarket.

00:31 John Daub: The supermarket is closed today even though the lights are on. She, like us, does not have any food. And these people coming in here are going to be quite disappointed. This is the beginning of it. The typhoon hasn't really hit. This is maybe the first band. I'm in a protected area. You can see.

01:04 John Daub: They're going to find out that it's closed. This is the third supermarket I've been to. His daughter goes, eh? It's closed. Kanae and I don't have milk or eggs, so we can't make an omelette. But the people are starting to clean up already. We've had some heavy rain so far today. And it's going to get way, way worse.

01:38 John Daub: I'm smiling because I'm always smiling. But this is a really serious situation. Kanae went to another convenience store to try to find something else. And I'm going to one more convenience store just to find milk and eggs and things like this. Because we turned our refrigerator off when we went to Fukuoka to try to clean it. Bad timing. Bad mistake. We have very little food. We'll be able to manage for two days I think. These are the kind of situations where you have to be really well prepared.

02:08 John Daub: There isn't a lot of food in the supermarket. I did go to one yesterday. The shelves were bare. Everybody had taken all the cup noodles, things that don't require electricity to make. Because there's a good chance the electricity will go out. In the last typhoon, the big one that hit this area, Chiba did not have power for over a week. Many areas of Chiba. And that meant that refrigerated food went bad and people were hungry.

02:38 John Daub: This storm, a lot of people have stocked up on instant ramen and things like this. And there was none available at the supermarket. So we're trying. I'm trying to fight for my family's survival. Now it's not as bad as that. This is a super typhoon. If you look on the map, I recommend that people do that just so they understand how serious of a situation this is. The size of the typhoon is about the size of Japan itself. It's massive.

03:08 John Daub: This is the start of it. You can already see bands of wind on the bridge there with the rain coming down. I've seen some umbrellas fly. The bridge is really not the ideal place to be. But I'm searching for food. And it's better to do it now than later. You can't even see the Tokyo Skytree which would be right in the center of your screen. Completely swollen. And I can see just a little bit of it sometimes, the base of it.

03:41 John Daub: We got some people from the Philippines writing in that they're praying for Japan. We know that the Philippines goes through some really strong storms. You can see on the Sumida River right now, bands of rain and wind coming across the surface. Again this is just a start. This is safe. I know this because the train lines are still in operation for another couple of hours.

04:19 John Daub: If you are away from your home in Japan, get home. The trains in the city of Tokyo, most of them are stopping between 12, which is an hour away from me now, and 2pm. And then the trains will be stopped all day until probably midday tomorrow. Because after a typhoon of this size, this magnitude, the train companies including the subways will do security checks to make sure the integrity of the land is safe, if the lines are still okay and that there's no problems with it.

04:49 John Daub: Whoa. My umbrella is starting to pick up some wind through here. I hope that the audio quality is pretty good. It's getting pretty windy out here. But once again, this is the start of it all. So we're still good. I have about 30 minutes before I really do need to get home.

05:18 John Daub: The bridge is pretty windy at the center of it. Live stream that the chance of electricity outage is very high and he's correct. Again we had a power outage for over a month. Japan's electricity lines are all underground because we have earthquakes. It's very easy for some of these power lines to be knocked down, especially the big main ones near power stations.

05:43 John Daub: Well my umbrella is starting to pick up a little wind like a kite. This is the Sumida area and I'm in such a food hunt. I should go across this bridge but I'm a little bit worried. Here comes a bus coming across. You can see just the amount of rain. It's not as bad right now but about 30 minutes ago it really was coming down. Flights are cancelled. I know a lot. Whoa, I've lost it. I've lost the umbrella. Flights are cancelled.

06:13 John Daub: You know my listening, but one of my high school buddies, his name is Mike Bettis, he's a storm chaser for the Weather Channel. Mike if you're watching this, I know you're not. It's probably, come to Japan and cover this storm because you bring a strong umbrella. They don't last very long. Me, Mike and I went to Ohio State University. I take my inspiration in times of storms from him. He almost lost it in a twister once but this isn't as bad.

06:54 John Daub: It's safe right now. Train lines are still running. Just stay away from the coast. Stay away from rivers. Try to stay elevated because I think Nagoya area had predictions of up to one meter of rain. That's three feet of rain is going to be dumped within 48 hours, most of that in probably a little amount of time. This is a little bit crazy. It's not that bad guys.

07:32 John Daub: I'm gonna just take shelter here for like 30 seconds and then I'm gonna sign off on this live stream. We still gotta buy food. There's a sign here telling people to be careful because of the typhoon. Again we're just at the start of it. It hasn't really picked up but I recommend that everybody gets indoors within the next 30 minutes. It's telling everybody to stay away from the river because the typhoon, there could be some flooding. And I bet you that it does go over the top during this storm.

08:04 John Daub: Japan is very well prepared for typhoons. I'm just gonna put this umbrella away. I can't even do that. Typhoon as well. Japan is very well prepared for storms. We're right between the bands of rain, so it's okay. Oh, I got we got a shot of the Tokyo Skytree right now. I'm pretty sure that wherever you are in the world that this storm is gonna hit your news because it's pretty big.

08:49 John Daub: Tokyo had never had anything like it. Again, stay away from rivers, stay away from coastlines. If you are traveling, get home now. This is all the times where we will rely on our neighbors and why we have good relationships with our neighbors if we don't have food. We're probably getting a great or two, maybe a couple cups of rice will be okay because I know my neighbors. I always make a point of doing it. You should too. Be a good person in your community.

09:26 John Daub: But this is a very serious time. A lot of the windows are bolted. Stores are closed. Flights are cancelled. If you are now a tourist visiting Japan, probably go to the convenience store, get some bottles of water just in case. Your hotel will guide you. The management there probably has a lot of experience in dealing with their guests at times of crisis, so you should be fine. Most of it is for earthquakes right now.

10:16 John Daub: Alright, I'm out here live streaming but I'm trying to give information to the people. NHK also has a really good live coverage. They have information that's updated all the time. Shinkansen will be stopping as well. I don't think that there are many running. I know last night JR had done a pretty good job of making sure that people got a place to stay and get out of the hotel.

10:40 John Daub: These umbrellas were not made for typhoons. Typhoon season in Japan happens between August. You can see them in June, in July. But around August when the waters get warm in the Pacific and they can go all the way till November. This is typhoon season. And they just hit but the rest of the time, beauty, it's really beautiful in June and in September and October in Japan. But right now not so much.

11:39 John Daub: So let's let me cross the street and see if we can find. Again this both of the supermarkets on this side of the river are closed. There was another 24-hour supermarket that I hit last night. I got some fair supplies, a 300 milliliter packet of milk, which will probably be swallowed up in my coffee. Any coffee filters? How am I gonna make coffee? Alright the wind starting to pick up a little bit.

12:08 John Daub: If you are stranded here like Alex from Germany who's been a really good contributor to the live streams, Alex stay safe. His flight back to Germany was cancelled so he's still here for another day. Cheryl and Luke and Austin are probably trapped here for another day. So stay safe guys and a lot of other viewers who wanted to meet up yesterday because we were gonna do a midnight snack run. Stay safe because that's not gonna happen today.

12:42 John Daub: Matsukiyo, she's open. Is that open? Oh, he's closing it right now. He's closing it now for the day. So they're actually allowing people in to get medicines and stuff and then they're closing. That's really nice of him. This is when the community comes together. The last door opened is this Matsumoto Kiyoshi. You can see the lights are out. Usually this is the brightest store on this block here, but they're allowing people in just to get some supplies, some things like water and such.

13:18 John Daub: Maybe I'm gonna try to do that. Let me see what they got in here. The shelves are pretty bare. Where the water is you see? There's not much in here. There's some tea, some snacks. People are stocking up on bags of potato chips and things like that. Looks like Alex is here in the chat. That's good. Stay safe, man.

14:04 John Daub: Now Thai food can't make me stop smiling. It's hard. I know this is a really tough situation. I try to look at the positives of everything. Even in a typhoon, maybe it'll clean away some of the dirt on the streets. I don't know. But Japan is very well prepared for this kind of a storm. We've been through some really big typhoons. We've been through earthquakes. We've been through a lot of things. So you can see the bands of wind.

14:47 John Daub: I'm walking around so I don't have to take a train home. But if you do just realize that most trains are done by 1 and 2pm, which is about an hour and a half from now. Everybody, please get inside including yours truly. That's where I'm going right now. I'm still looking for food. There's another convenience store, I think up here. So I'm gonna go check that out and then I'm gonna go back.

15:10 John Daub: Kanae has gone to a couple of other convenience stores just to see what we can scrounge up whether it's a bottle of water, a two liter bottle of water or some instant noodles or things like this just in case the electricity goes out for an extended period of time. We want to be ready for that. Wow, I can hear the wind. Sorry guys. We filled our bathtub already. Thanks for that suggestion. We've done all that we can.

15:54 John Daub: You can see the windows, the blinds have been drawn in the supermarket and it's closed today. They put the carts in front of the doors and they're closed. Shoot, there's no way to get in. She's running because I know there's another convenience store over there. There's a bookstore. I don't need a book but let's go take a look at this convenience store. Then we're gonna end the live stream.

16:26 John Daub: Hey, we're at like the very beginning of it and people are scrounging as stores are open right now. People are scrounging around looking for supplies and things to make it through. I guess we didn't find what she was looking for. Ah, even the convenience store. She didn't find what she was looking for. Yeah, the stores are closed. The bookstore's open though that's strange. That might be a good idea if you get a book. So if the electricity goes out you have something to do.

16:51 John Daub: This Lawson's folks is closed and you can see the sign telling people, "Kon'nichi typhoon juu kyu" so they got a message saying that the typhoon, because of Typhoon 19, the shop is closed on the 12th and will be open again on the 13th. So for today it's a day of rest. There's a second sign in case the first sign didn't make sense to you and they're the same thing.

17:36 John Daub: What it's weird huh, it's weird that you can't get any food. The buses are in operation again everybody until midday today so they're and the buses right now I can report are virtually empty except for the three people on there now. Public transportation is up. There are very few taxis. The ones that there are are usually full of somebody getting from A to B and the taxi drivers will be off of the streets by midday, again by 2pm everybody.

18:17 John Daub: I just want to point this out, the streets will be pretty much dead today. It's trash day in Tokyo and they've been making an extremely fast run to pick up any trash that people might have put out on the streets the night before. But Japanese people have been pretty responsible. They brought the truck. I was really amazed. People have brought their trash inside so it wouldn't be blowing around the city. That's pretty amazing to me. Like the trash stinks right, it's still kind of warm outside but they didn't want it flying all around the communities.

18:52 John Daub: The trash man had very little trash to pick up. I've seen him just cruising through here picking one bag or random things and then he just went to the next one. These are live images from Tokyo's, I don't even know what they call this typhoon in Japan. We don't give typhoons names, we give them numbers. This is Typhoon number 19. I think it was Typhoon 12 or 13 was really strong and it blew around Chiba way.

19:24 John Daub: Hey Tabby, eats are here, Shinichi, Satoshi yes. Ah so we our flights are canceled. Um and I know that you guys were staying for another day so you're sorted out hopefully you can get back on Sunday. I think there's some, there's a lot more flights than we. Our flight was canceled like while we're like just about five hours before, just enough time to make it really inconvenient. We couldn't find a reasonably priced hotel so PVG and I and Kanae and his wife we got onto the last Shinkansen very quickly.

20:04 John Daub: We got the tickets and we were on it, I think with about four minutes to spare. And if we hadn't, we wouldn't have been able to get back to Tokyo. And I had my window open, Shinichi. I had the window open. I'm so glad I came home because it would have been a disaster if my window was not closed. Because we left five days ago to go on this trip in Kyushu. Yes, Tabietsu was there, by the way.

20:35 John Daub: I'm glad that I could communicate with you guys through the live stream. Yeah, but Tokyo is right now, it's right at the start of it right now. We're between bands of rain. It's not very strong right now. My umbrella has been slaughtered by the wind and I don't have too far to go. The only store open is this bookstore. It makes no sense, but maybe it makes perfect sense because if the electricity goes out, it's good to have a good book.

21:00 John Daub: There's a high chance of electrical outages, everybody knows, because of what happened in Chiba a couple of months ago. My umbrella bit the dust. Might be good enough for right now. You guys have any questions about typhoons in Japan? I'm saying this because this is the last minute. Don't worry, we've been. I received a small umbrella fund from people way too nice. I'll be getting a new umbrella.

21:36 John Daub: I thought I would be able to get it at this convenience store. I'll find another place. There are public shelters usually. They're at the city halls or the schools. There are signs around, but most people don't need a public shelter because they have homes. But the homeless probably have been tapped on the shoulder and brought inside. Japan is pretty good with that. They're not going to leave anybody outside who cannot find shelter for themselves. Everybody will be taken care of.

22:01 John Daub: The most important thing I want to stress to everybody before we sign off. The most important thing to life in Japan is personal safety, is safety to people. Every single company, including JR, they do so many safety checks on everything, just so many plans, contingency plans, plan A, plan B, plan C. Citizens of Tokyo have a yellow disaster book that has plans in there, so you know what to do.

22:28 John Daub: We're so ready for this kind of stuff that there's virtually no loss of life even though it's unavoidable and is massive storm like this, there's virtually no loss of life because we're so well prepared. Not Kanae and I this time because we don't have anything in our refrigerators, but other people are. And we're going to be relying on our community if the worst comes to it. And I'm hoping that it doesn't.

23:02 John Daub: Let's just see. Let's see how this plays out. If the winds get super strong, there might be something from my window, but I'm going to be staying away from the windows if it gets truly scary. Again, personal safety is the most important. Typhoon season is over in the first half of November. I'm getting the months all confused because November is juuichi and ichigatsu is January, so it's very hard to translate in my mind.

23:33 John Daub: Typhoons will come to Tokyo not so often. They usually will hit Okinawa and Kyushu or they'll go around the islands and then curve back out to sea or sometimes they'll curve and go straight over Tokyo. And maybe I'd say there's usually one or two big typhoons that come through here, but they're pretty weak. I want to think of it in terms of the United States. Not that many get up to New York and Washington, D.C., right?

24:02 John Daub: Tokyo would be kind of similar as maybe Washington, D.C. in a way. Typhoons will hit Florida, South Carolina, or hurricanes will hit Florida, South Carolina, but they don't make it up north because the seas are colder. Up here in Tokyo, the seas of the Pacific are a little bit colder, so storms will lose their edge up in the north of the Pacific because again, it's a bigger body of water, so it's cooler than the Atlantic Ocean.

24:22 John Daub: So typhoons are typically not as powerful as hurricanes, but do not underestimate the power of the typhoon. And my college friend, Mike Bettis, who is a storm chaser for the Weather Channel, probably agree because he's seen some big storms. Do not take super typhoon Hagibis lightly. And again, in Japan, that's a Western naming system that they use. We don't name typhoons in Japan. We give them numbers. This is number 19 for everybody that's watching.

25:06 John Daub: It's almost eerily quiet. I'm putting my umbrella away. The clouds are moving really fast, so the typhoon is coming. I'm going to get back home, guys. Push the refresh button on your screen. You can see the clouds going really fast over the skyscrapers right there. It should be fine now. If you refresh your browser, using an umbrella is almost pointless because of winds, the gusts.

25:45 John Daub: The supermarkets are closed. Convenience stores are closed in Tokyo. You might find some convenience stores that are still open. But for the most part, everyone who's out right now is just scrounging to try to find milk, eggs, things that they need. Maybe instant ramen. The instant ramen is all gone.

26:06 John Daub: Japan is well prepared. I'm a student in Kobe and we have been given three books on preparedness, emergency phone numbers, websites. Emergency stations and shelters are already set up. Winds up to 217 kilometers per hour. That's such a powerful rain that you definitely want to be inside for that now. We got in a band of wind that's coming through.

26:29 John Daub: Thanks for that information NHK. NHK's website, JR's website, all of them are updating regularly like within every 10 minutes so you stay up to date. In case the electricity goes off, the radio stations of course are where you should go. The internet might go out because of the 4G towers they might get knocked down. We do have a radio at our house. You should have a radio in yours as well.

27:13 John Daub: Can I and I had tickets for performance tonight cancelled. It's not happening. Again everything is cancelled. Get home by 2pm guys. Be safe out there. None of the convenience stores are open here honey so I'm just gonna come home before it's too late. I know I'm still in the safe zone but it's gonna get increasingly worse and worse.

27:48 John Daub: All right this is the supermarket where I started my live stream. Public transportation until about 1, 2pm. Taxis will start to become scarce soon. Cars on the streets will be gone because everyone is going indoors. But again this is sort of a safe period where you can get a little bit of supplies if you need them. I'll be inside hold up for the rest of the day.

28:14 John Daub: This supermarket is closed. You can see the shelves are bare. Um there's some wine, there's some beer but all of the disposables like bread, milk, eggs, things like this, instant ramen it's all gone. Things that don't require just require a gas burner to cook are gone. Nothing is available. People are coming to the supermarket finding out that it's closed.

28:39 John Daub: Bicycles have been knocked down. The first victims of the typhoon are right there. This bike with the very nice white wheels has been destroyed by the winds. RIP bicycles. I'm just looking at the supermarket realizing that it's closed. It's kind of funny just to stand here and watch people go oh shoot it's closed. There's a sign in the door right there telling everybody sorry today is a day of rest.

29:35 John Daub: Nothing that you can do. People keep coming. They see the sign. That guy has given up on getting more supplies for his family. I'm not one to give up yet but I'm very close to it as well. There's another supermarket down this way. Thanks everybody. Typhoon is Typhoon Hagibis. We have an earthquake survival bag as well so our family, me and Kanae, we're going to be okay but it's just we don't have the best foods.

30:19 John Daub: Oh branch just came off of the tree. Big news in Tokyo, this tree branch has fallen. Could have landed on top of me. Came from that tree. In all seriousness though the typhoon this one is an extremely strong one. Um recommend that you get in by 2pm. I recommend you get in right now. Stay safe. Um depend on your neighbors in times of crisis as well for information.

30:54 John Daub: If you're a hotel guest, you're staying in Japan, your flight has been cancelled, rely on your hotel for up-to-date information and if you need food and things like that they will try to accommodate you. They're also well trained and well prepared to handle foreign guests in these kinds of situations and direct you where you should go if things get really bad.

31:16 John Daub: Japan has a lot of contingency plans and there's a yellow book that every hotel should have to let you know that you're in a good place to stay. Things are starting to pick up in the wind wise so I'm going to go inside guys. Thanks everybody. Um if you have any questions please leave a comment below. I always appreciate the likes but in this kind of a situation it's hard to like because mother nature's having a lot of rain on us today.

31:38 John Daub: Stay safe everywhere you are in the world. See you in another live stream. There's more to report. We'll get some food maybe we'll go live again because this is new for me too. I haven't been in a super typhoon like this before so I'm going to go ahead and get some food and then I'll see you guys in the next video. I'm learning as we go along as well. Bye from Japan. Stay safe if you're in Japan.