Light rain in Hsinchuang. It seems like I can not ride today.
Donāt give up hope yet. In the early stages of typhoons like this, itās hit and miss. 30 minutes and everything could change and you can ride. Just donāt go far and have a backup plan.
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Relax, Dorothy. Youāve always got the shoes to fall back on.
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Track is continuing to edge north - itās shifted almost 100k north since last night and could still go higher
The longer it stays offshore the more chance it has to increase strength and it does seem to be doing that
Itās also absorbing the TD to the south west and that will add more rain
Just completed all the preparations thanks to the help of a couple of great young Taiwanese fellahs here for work exchange - ultimately, I think itās gonna be no biggie in Taidong which is almost annoying after youāve done all your prep work - though I will be watching for any sudden turn into the coast
On current projections, Hualien and Ilan and maybe even Keelung residents will be hardest hit initially - then it could become a south west coast event
Rain is by far the biggest killer in typhoons and although its hard to gauge the intensity until it happens, Nesat does look to be packing a lot of it
If you live in a mountainous area in Hualien or Ilan, or in a flood prone low lying area - then you should seriously consider evacuation
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Looking at the radar animation, I wonder if this is not going further north - Taipei could even end up in play
The eye has travelled nnw over the last 9 hrs and would need to go virtually due west to get to where itās predicted to go - just south of Hualien city
Lanyu has clocked 80 mil so far from a tail swipe outer band
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7/observe/radar/Data/HD_Radar/CV1_3600_201707291030.png
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Thanks for the thrilling blow by blow. Iām not even in Taiwan now, but I can almost smell the typhoon.
Last night I arrived in Yilan around 11.45. The ride back home (by bicycle) wasā¦interesting. Out of the bus there was no rain and little to now wind, so i thought:āOh neat, no need to get a cab, Iāll just take my steedā.
In the 10kms from the station to home I got so wet that if I dived into the ocean I would not have noticed any difference. At a certain point there was a wall of water that turned everything white, I couldnāt see anything beyond 10/15 meters away. I had the thought of hiding under the highway bridge, but the rain slowed down a little bit and sicne the wind was not particularly strong I managed to make it home.
40 minutes to ride 10kms is my new slowest record !
I wish I had my GoPro to record the expression of the few people I met on the way back!
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I went out for breakfast. A mix of some serious beams of sun and black clouds. I felt like to ride my motorcycle to the coast and even get into the water, but if itās going to rain I guess Iāll stay at home watching movies.
Well, my flight for midnight tonight has now been rescheduled to 4am tomorrow morning. Iād guess thatās typhoon related, although the email didnāt give a reason.
Keep that GoPro handy - thereās a chance Ilan could end up with the brunt of it
The eye is already level with Taidong city but still quite far out to sea
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7/observe/radar/Data/HD_Radar/CV1_3600_201707291030.png
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Now itās just grey and dull, nothing interesting to see.
I prepared my tripod and camera by the window, though. We have a side of the house facing the west and the balcony is often semi-dry even during typhoons.
I have to admire the toughness of the Taiwanese who lived before radar. Having to deal with typhoons unexpectedly must have been quite rough.
I wonder if this typhoon doesnāt literally have your name written on it
Itās called Nesat - NE - SAT - meaning itās going to the North East on Saturday?
Last year we had Nepartak - which was obviously a thinly veiled attack on Taidong artists
It was a conspiracy all along!
For GFS the eye will basically pass over my house. That would be amazing, Iāve always wanted to take a picture from the center of a typhoon!
MAKE.IT.HAPPEN.
Just for comparison, this is Nepartak at a similar distance from the coast last year:
This is Nesat now - it doesnāt lose much by comparisonā¦
Is it me or itās going just North?
It noticed that Iām recharging my cameraās batteries and doesnāt want me to miss the opportunity. How nice of him!
Yeah, itās going north. If youāre in Taipei, especially a coastal place, you definitely need to be on alert
88 mil in Pingdong in the last hour - and thatās just from some incoming on a feed-in stream - there will be a lot more just north of wherever it hits