Keelung
Had them… bleckkkkk
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Even my kids agree, and they love most Oreo flavors
Giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you were referring to the spring tide mentioned by Icon makes the premise of your question more interesting
The English seems to mention 2 things about tides, which is from whence the confusion and derision may have arisen:
- Krathon is said to be coming in with a higher than normal spring tide, so higher than usual high tide due to the new moon + typhoon = water level so high that drains may be already full during the heavy rain
- The eye of Krathon may hit the coast at the same time of day as the high tide at 8 am, so given that it is said to be a high spring tide, make sure you have sandbags out by 8am and in fact at 8pm Wednesday (presumably the previous high tide)
As everyone has said above, better safe than sorry, so good that this advice was shared.
Your question appears to be addressed by this paper, where I may be mistaken, but it seems, like our non-typhoonologists mentioned above, I failed to find anything about typhoons being more likely to arrive at new or full moons (spring tides):
However, where the premise of your question gets interesting is that according to the CWA, the predicted high tides for Thursday according to their website are not shown as spring tides, but as neap tides, the lowest high tides of the month!
and the numbers can be checked here:
So why if it’s a new moon and the sun and moon are pulling in the same direction is there not going to be a spring tide until the full moon in a fortnight?
Well, their site seems to offer a couple of reasons why that might be, both being kinds of seasonal variation:
Perhaps our resident north coast surfer and prudent tree trimmer might be willing to further elucidate this matter?
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Barely raining here in Xizhi. No wind.
Edit: A bit more than “barely.” Just took the dog out. I couldn’t see it from inside the apartment.
That’s because there is no typhoon anymore. It died overnight.
Dammit as I post this the rain has started again.
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There never was one, its a conspiracy, made to trick everyone to giving up their work days, do your own research 
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Didn’t get in Pingtung City
That sounds like a recipe for a stomach ache or worse! 
Guy
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Thank you! I feel seen, I feel heard.
Guy
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Barely even made landfall in the south innit.
This guy is there telling us (and showing us) what’s happening in K Town:
https://x.com/EarthUncutTV/status/1841621170380275728
Guy
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You have a very strange attitude in this thread. Are you mad at nature, or the authorities, or both?
I can assure you there are extremely strong winds outside my window right now in ‘the south’. And emergency messages have been texted to my phone a short while ago. Does that disappoint you somehow?
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@the_bear is in the capital where the effects of this storm have been, to put it mildly, muted.
It’s great to have forumosans like you @afx to let us know how things look in other parts of the island including in K-Town.
The last storm to hit the west coast in this way (it’s extremely unusual) did major damage. I very much hope @the_bear’s prognosis is actually correct, though I fear there will be at minimum some major flooding in K-Town and Tainan today. We’ll see how well those cities’ drainage systems work . . .
Guy
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Didn’t affect Taipei, so didn’t happen.
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I’m not in the south. I’m into a second day of typhoon holiday in Taipei city that does not appear warranted.
And some wanker just stole my umbrella from outside Carrefor.
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You’re complaining about a two-day holiday? Am I getting that right? 
Surely better to err on the side of caution? This seems to be a very unusual storm, both historically and in terms of the modeling. I for one am glad it has taken its sweet time and been unpredictable – if the current conditions outside my place are a Cat 1–2, I wouldn’t want to see a Cat 3–4 making a direct landfall on my head.
Current conditions just a short ferry hop across the water from me:
https://x.com/iCyclone/status/1841629331627327665
Not exactly weather to be commuting or doing the school run in!
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I tried both. Oreo-flavored Coke Zero is great. Much better than real Coke Zero. I’ll be sad when it inevitably disappears.
Coke-flavored Oreos taste like ass.
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