# Typhoons 2018 **URL:** \ **Category:** Living in Taiwan\ **Tags:** 2018, typhoons\ **Created:** [February 6, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/typhoons-2018/167062 "2018-02-06T18:33:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 493
**Author:** ![lostinasia](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/lostinasia/32/60703_2.png) [@lostinasia](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/lostinasia)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 10:26pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/typhoons-2018/167062/493 "2018-07-09T22:26:03Z")
If you live in a normal home in northern Taiwan, you don’t really need to worry about the typhoon. Just be prepared to hole up for a couple of days. For preparation, have a look over here, although some of the links and pictures are broken: > [@Preparing for a Typhoon - What You Need to Know facebook](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/preparing-for-a-typhoon-what-you-need-to-know/25969): > > [[image]](http://www.forumosa.org/classic-posts/) [color=#0000FF]Mod’s note Dec 2014 Updated info here [forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtop … 0#p1654300](https://www.forumosa.com/taiwan/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=46197&start=70#p1654300) courtesy of Yuli. Thanks to both DB and Yuli! [/color] All you need to know about typhoons: Taiwan gets hit by 3-4 typhoons each year on average, usually from July to Sept., although its weather is affected by a few more passing nearby. Typhoons can bring violent winds, tearing pieces of roofs off, downing signs, and creating a lethal hazard with flying debris. Severe flooding in low-lying … A few things that come to mind for me: - Try to get a couple of “hand-operated” fans: if the power goes out, it can be really hot. The worst I’ve personally had to deal with in typhoons here is about 12 hours without power, stinking hot, wondering if I was going to lose all the food in the freezer. - Make sure all devices and power banks are charged, and that flashlight batteries are in good shape. - Fill buckets with water. Occasionally the water gets turned off, and you want to flush that toilet, or wash yourself. - Fill pots and pans with water. That’d be for cooking. - Make sure you’ve got enough food around for a couple of days. - Make sure you’ve got a bunch of big bottles of drinking water. Which you should have anyway, because we live in a country with many earthquakes. - Maybe most important?: make sure the drains are clear on your balcony. For many of us, the main “flooding” danger is a blocked balcony drain and then overflowing water coming into the apartment. - I suppose bringing in laundry is an obvious point? - (Taping window has been mostly discredited I believe, and if you do this, you may be stuck with a diagonal line of leftover tape glue on your window.) - If the power goes out, open the fridge and freezer as infrequently as possible. - Don’t go outside to enjoy the show. All those signs that clutter up Taiwan streets? They fly. With momentum. And edges. - If you’ve got a gas can on your balcony, close it, and just turn it on when you need to cook. --- _[View the full topic](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/typhoons-2018/167062)._