I hope that’s the bus the guy wanted to take lol (0:05).
Kong-rey was the most powerful typhoon to hit Taiwan in 28 years, said Gene Huang, a forecaster with the island’s Central Weather Administration.
I can’t even get out of my apartment. I gots flotsam and jetsam.
Imma play the Covid card and call in sick even though I wfh.
It’s suddenly very quiet here (Zhongzheng, Taipei), after a few hours of wondering whether my windows would break. Just a bit of drizzle and a messy balcony now.
It’s calmed down, so I’m taking a walk. Lots of fallen tiles, debris, potted plants, and even a few scooters. Also some big trees down in the road. Night crews are gonna have their work cut out for them.
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Open roof. Raining…flooded floor. No electricity. Candles are just fine. Headlamps when needed, but saving battery in case we don’t get power for more days, already day 2.
But all our food outside the fridge is covered in shit from the wind and rain coming in through the roof. No running water so can’t wash t. Guess I’m eating meat today cause there ain’t nuthin else…I’m a veggie but I’m also realistic…
Pass on ev batteries in rain and flood. Even I I had the cash for such a toy.
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Still rainy, but not as heavy as it’s been all day. However, the wind just won’t let up. Howling outside.
We briefly lost power from 22:50 to 23:15
I was hoping to get the dogs out for a walk, but it’s just too hazardous. I did venture outside around 22:30, just to check on any possible damages and all seems to be in order except for one huge tree limb which came down sometime today. I’ll be firing up the chainsaw tomorrow to clean it up. Lots of leaves and vegetation all over the place. Going to be giving the leaf blower a serious work out as well tomorrow.
Hard to believe that there will be work and school tomorrow as it still feels way to strong to allow for safe travel to and from work and school. Oh well.
By the way. It’s HOT outside. Seriously. It’s 26.4 degrees and only 83% humidity.
It was even 26.6 degrees at 23:35. Must be the energy from the typhoon.
Such a big tree at what looks like a really small area for the roots… Sometimes, I am amazed that some of the trees around here are still standing even without a typhoon…
Part if the reason they are always trimming them so horrendously. Many government projects also tend to buy large trees in small rootbound pots to save growing time and the 3rd party companies can make a faster buck.
Rinse and repeat. I guess it’s technically not corruption.
To be fair though,at least out east. This typhoons wind were extremely severe, even properly planted trees are gone
All the typhoon, and none of the usual cool down. This is something new to me.
Guy
We lost three very large trees around our building on a dead end street so no way in or out until they clean it up. I’m curious why they didn’t at least delay opening today, there seems to be lots of this all over the city including power lines and such. Hard to believe everything will be made safe and passable by rush hour.
Up here in Tamsui there’s many fallen trees and broken branches but so far roads seem clear. Currently on my way to work
Funny how the places that still have a typhoon warning are the ones at work. I’m guessing they needed to open the airport or government for some reason.
So, I imagine lots of smaller southern mountains roads look like this:
Trees on power lines. How the lines didn’t snap off last night is a mystery.
I stopped to move the rocks and some scooters neighbors stopped as well. One of them said the big one was a three man rock.
He wasn’t wrong!
Given that this has been the first Typhoon that I have experienced (had a few near misses from those that skirted the East Coast), I am rather relieved that this one has gone.
Here at Yingge, there was very heavy rain until about dawn Thursday, then just showers through the day. The wind was not so bad, all of it coming from the East, though some gusts made it feel like the building was shaking. It started to die down from about sunset, and was all pretty quiet by 9pm. I heard a few crashes which seemed to be internal to neighbours (the loose stuff that you see on balconies more than likely) but nothing visible outside.
In terms of weather it seems the call to work today was a good one, at least around me! Plenty of small branches and leaves, the odd lump of corrugated iron and even masonary on the road but on a whole not enough to justify a day off. Few colleagues happy to be here as their power is off at home!
2-man rock if both are chewing betel nut