Rivers seem particularly dangerous though. So is the ocean but at the ocean you need to look for rip currents and swim in safe areas close to shore, when the surf is not too rough. Or swim in Long Tong? Salt water swimming holes there. IS that place still around? Was nice.
Rivers, you need to see where there are no whirlpools and underwater rocks to kill you.
Seriously it is a problem. Flash floods are unpredictable and highly common, as a little rain upstream takes its time to grow into a fierce killing blow.
I posted about some foreigners who survived a flash flood and gad to hang on for dear life like 8 hours on a cliff.
I’m looking at an app that says the previous highest temperature for September 29 is 29 degrees (I suspect that’s wrong). Its currently 35 degrees. This is madness.
i said something similar on facebook and a taiwanese person(living overseas no less) asked me why i am still living here then. damn, better just keep my mouth shut and enjoy the extended summer hell heat i guess.
that would have been appropriate, possibly not worth getting worked up about taiwanese asking me why i don’t leave or when i am leaving though. it would be a daily thing.
i’ve noticed a pattern in small talk with strangers and its kinda like this.