Oh Fucking Hell...

Apparently Mt Fuji is going to blow any second. There's been particular speculation this winter because there was no snow on the peak despite the record levels of snow everywhere else in the country: a possible sign that it is heating up from inside. Since 2000 there have been several-month long periods of constant tremors around Fuji, which indicates magma moving underneath, possibly upwards; steam piping out of microchannels in the side; locals feeling a constant sense of unexplainable unease and now this:

"It seems the natural world fears that Fuji-san is about to blow, too. Since the start of 2004, frogs and stinkbugs once prominent in the area have virtually disappeared. Some see this as a sign that they've sensed something untoward is about to happen and they're avoiding the place like the plague. Observers have noticed this phenomenon, too."

That is NOT a good sign. Bees always return to their hives before a storm comes. The tsunami in December 2004 also revealed this phenomenon in animals:

"Scientists noticed, though, that the tsunami disaster of 2004 killed very few animals, whereas the number of human victims was immense – over 300,000 people. There are a lot of hypotheses to explain such a mysterious phenomenon, but people paid attention to animal's ability to react to imminent natural dangesr in ancient times already.

The first incident was documented in the year 2000 A.C. The ancient manuscript says that people noticed that weasels suddenly disappeared from their usual habitats in Crete shortly before a very powerful earthquake rocked the island.

Snakes suddenly appeared on the surface of the ground in the winter of 1975 in China. Snakes are cold-blooded animals; they hide in shelters and become dormant for winter periods. Local authorities treated such a “violation of biological norms” seriously and evacuated the residents. As it turned out later, the snakes forecast a mammoth earthquake, which was measured 7.3 on Richter scale. The history of the 20th century proves that animals possess a remarkable ability to foresee not only earthquakes, but tsunamis as well. There were incidents, when animals abandoned valleys prior to avalanching; London residents paid attention to cats and dogs' behavior before air raids during the WWII years.

A beacon worker in South India said in December of 2004 that he had seen a large flock of antelopes fleeing the coastal area towards nearest hills just several hours before the tsunami disaster. Eyewitnesses say that elephants were trumpeting, breaking chains and escaping inland in Thailand. Having a presentiment of a forthcoming natural disaster, flamingos left their lowlands and flew in the direction of mountainous areas as well. Employees of the Malaysian zoo noticed that all animals had a very strange way of behavior: the majority of zoo animals hid in their shelters and refused to go out.

The tsunami disaster killed over 30,000 people in Sri Lanka. However, almost all local elephants, deer and other wild animals survived the monstrous attack of tidal waves. It is worth mentioning that only one wild boar of 2,000 animals of an Indian reserve was killed in the 2004 tsunami disaster.

According to US biologists, 14 sharks, which were kept under regular observation for several years, had left their usual places of living 12 hours before Charlie hurricane hit Florida. The sharks disappeared in deep waters of the ocean and returned only two weeks later, although they have never left their natural habitat before.

Animals obviously know something that humans can never comprehend or learn. The tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004 made scientists look deeper into the mystery. Researchers have already proved that different animal species living all over the world possess the surprising ability to envisage natural catastrophes."

Some humans can feel these things too, I think. My Mum said she was in Algeria when the huge earthquake hit Morroco in the 1960s, and the day before all the birds and dogs were dead quiet and you could feel something strange in the air. I had this experience once when I was in Japan last time. There was a night when I just couldn't sleep - I was lying there so tense and rigid because I could just feel that there was going to be an earthquake and then eventually at 3am it happened - it was the biggest that happened to me in those six months. The second after it had happened I fell straight to sleep.

Ummmmmm, I don't like this. I don't like this at all. I'm keeping an eye on the Tokyo crows from now on. Come to think of it, I haven't heard a single one today.