Yes you read the headline right. There's an UPSIDE to hurricanes and
typhoons: they tend to topple corrupt rulers by creating crop
failures.

In ancient China, it was called losing the "Mandate of Heaven" and
often was responsible for regime change (go here and note the shorter
dynasties:
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Dynast...-timeline.html)

In more recent times, crop failures in Cuba caused by hurricanes a few
years ago and North Korea this year were responsible for civil uprest.

Who knows, perhaps this year's typhoons will do to to Kim Jong Il what
the Bush administration cannot--overthrow him.

"Blame" it on global warming.

RL