Typhoon Sanba



As many of you know, just yesterday we were hit with typhoon Sanba. It was a pretty bad storm with some very, very strong winds.  Thus, keeping us inside for the majority of the weekend.  The storm hit us badly on Sunday night. The scariest part of the typhoon was that you can't really see anything that is happening and can't really anticipate a whole lot either.  Since you can't see wind, and there aren't too many trees in the city it is hard to know how fast the winds are. All I know is that the wind was really loud and I could see sheets of rain coming down.  I have never experienced such load wind. I was watching a show on my computer and I couldn't even hear it right next to me.  Then in the night I woke up to my bed and the building shaking. Can you say rude awakening?  It was still storming in the morning and I still had to go to work.  School was cancelled for the kids but teachers were still expected to show up.  I was a bit nervous since it was still really windy and rainy.  I was able to find a taxi pretty quickly and made it to school without being swept away by the winds.  Back in MN we have "snow days" and in Korea you have "typhoon days."  I prefer snow days, since playing in the snow is fun. Playing in a typhoon is just deadly and not fun.


Since this blog post is about disastrous situations I thought I would add this. It has nothing to do with typhoons, but with fires.

This is the "Emergency Life Line" that is in the window in my apartment.  The rope and harness are in the gray box and I hook it up to the bar on the wall. They don't have fire alarms, just a life line. So if I start to feel heat, I better suit-up and shimmy down the building from the 8th floor. Good luck to me. Let's hope that I never have to use it.