I was thinking of you when German TV showed Kaohsiung hetting hit by that typhoon. I am glad you are ok and there were some not horrible moments during the whole event!
I think even the reporters were half-hoping it'd be worse than it was, because it spent 3 days just dangling there off the coast looking menacing, so they kept building it up! I actually saw a local news team complete with pretty-girl-in-a-hard-hat - the gold standard for typhoon reporting - record a couple of takes to try to communicate the urgency of the news while standing in front of a relatively calm ocean on a relatively clear day.
Once it did hit, though, the video that really drove home the strength of the wind for me was watching a pile of unsecured shipping containers at the port get sucked up into the air and go tumbling like Lego bricks. I think most people were smart enough to stay inside during landfall so once the eye wall passed there was just a bunch of clean up to do, which is something that happens pretty quickly and efficiently here.
dood...once you catch your first wave, and you're being propelled by an invisible force and literally sliding across the top of the water...it's a drug. It's magic. it's the best thing in the world. The ocean is a mother who will drown you without thought, and also give you joy unlike any other. I'm glad you got to go out.
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I think even the reporters were half-hoping it'd be worse than it was, because it spent 3 days just dangling there off the coast looking menacing, so they kept building it up! I actually saw a local news team complete with pretty-girl-in-a-hard-hat - the gold standard for typhoon reporting - record a couple of takes to try to communicate the urgency of the news while standing in front of a relatively calm ocean on a relatively clear day.
Once it did hit, though, the video that really drove home the strength of the wind for me was watching a pile of unsecured shipping containers at the port get sucked up into the air and go tumbling like Lego bricks. I think most people were smart enough to stay inside during landfall so once the eye wall passed there was just a bunch of clean up to do, which is something that happens pretty quickly and efficiently here.
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I'm living for your triumphant return to the ocean. What an inspiration to face fears!
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dood...once you catch your first wave, and you're being propelled by an invisible force and literally sliding across the top of the water...it's a drug. It's magic. it's the best thing in the world. The ocean is a mother who will drown you without thought, and also give you joy unlike any other. I'm glad you got to go out.
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