Just when it looked as if world events couldn't get any worse, they did. August 9, 2009: mark it as the day that the web bot prediction of a "global coastal event" came true. Now admittedly, the term Global Coastal Event is a bit ambiguous and it could mean just about anything. I picked up this snippet from realufos.netthat gives a synopsis of what George Ure and Cliff believed the global coastal event to be:

Global Coast Event likely in early to mid 2009
• Permanent loss of low lying territory globally but one continent in particular get hit badly. We don’t know which one, but we hope it’s like a Greenland or some not heavily populated area. (*working on this now, but it’s at the limit of our software)
• Places to avoid: anything at sea level (Bangladesh/Florida/ etc).

At this point we do not know if the typhoon is going to result in "permanent" loss of territory or not and we cannot say that this event is "global" in nature, but even so, we can draw some other conclusions which might qualify this as the event predicted. The very fact that this typhoon caused the displacement of one million people makes it a pretty extraordinary correlation with what was predicted. Furthermore, that it hit a major center of Chinese industry means that this will have global impact. I will not be surprised to see the markets tank tomorrow in response to the possibility that there may be significant manufacturing and other industry lost. As one of the world's emerging economic superpowers, China's impact on the other nations of the world is easily recognized. This could be a setback to any economic recovery that had started to take place. On top of all of this, we have to remember that George and Cliff also predicted that the economy would be showing signs of recovery right before the markets crash again. Could this be the next thing to happen?