Eh from personal experience, you might make it there…it’s the return that’s tricky. In my case, I walked behind a wall sized buxiban wood ad. Behind, not under. It was being pushed down the street by the wind.
So… what do we get tomorrow? and on Wednesday?
No. Nope. Ni en sueños.
Vaya a dormir. Mañana hay que trabajar.
You drink wine from 7-Eleven?
must be that rice/cooking wine!
Odds of serious injury/death are pretty much equal either way. If one has failed to stock up sufficiently then it’s an acceptable risk, IMO. However, if one has a roommate one can convince to make the run - then that’s a preferable option.
I’m not sure what would take you out first. The typhoon or the dyspepsia?
It happens every year, people are used to it. There are several cat 4 or 5 typhoons each year, while a hurricane of similar intensity is not common.
If you want to skip it, go South, like Kenting/Kaohsiung. Yilan should be better than keelung, but still messy.
I suggest to just embrace it.
WITNESS.
Homes here solid, looks ugly but for the most part made to withstand strong Typhoon (Huricane) and also with stand earthquakes (99.99% of them, its 0.01% you see in the news)
Get a shiteload of towels ready at hand in case you get roostertails of rain coming out of your window sills.
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I filled all my ikea tupperware with water.
Because we live in concrete homes. Maybe u can tape your windows, prepare a boat, or escape to Taichung. And worship the god of instant noodles. You’ll be fine.
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:
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.
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Oh AND YOU can actually fly off a balcony. The wind can be that strong so crouch but dont stand when out there when the phoon is upon you…otherwise phoo you go.
Maria lost some power overnight, she’s now just barely a cat 4, bordering on 3.
Only few hours away and still no agreement between gfs and ecmwf, odd.
Well it has started raining in downtown Taipei.
So no day off tomorrow, right?
no day off for us either. still dangerous driving to work, though.
Good luck in Taipei and northern Taiwan!
Who knows. We’re probably not going to find out until tonight, when they have a better idea of how fast the storm is moving through.
I’m worried about how it’s going to be for people coming home tonight.
I’m curious how this is all going to go. I’m not exactly fearful, but it feels like a number of years since Taipei has been seriously hit by a typhoon (rather than Yilan and/or Hualian taking the brunt - thanks Ibis!), and I wonder if people have become complacent.