Serious Typhoon

My going away party in Beijing, this is Lanfang's coffee shop. Very good people I have worked with.

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My plane was not touching down smoothly yet I thought I was just unluckily having the bad pilot. Not until I was waiting for my mom in the pickup area than I realised it's windy and raining very hard.

The super Typhoon hit Taipei city the second day I arrived. My home was shaking, moving as the wind blew, really scary. I thought it might snap in half. Yet I was told it is a good thing that it moves around, otherwise the energy would be stored and built up large enough to crumble the building. I was really feeling dizzy at home, my headache was worse seeing my father standing against the big french window in the living room. "What's the matter, dad?" "The window is going to break" came reply. "That's not a solution to support the window with your back the whole day". I then helped to move the big bookshelf to the position against the window (my dad's knee is not doing well, can hardly walk without support these days), with a pillow in between as cusion. My mom came out and saw what we did with her living room, went completely ballistic. Oh well, I tried to console her better be safe than sorry.

The wind was so strong that our building was out of electricity for a while. The worse is that the lift is not in operation, getting down to ground floor would be challenging since my home is on the 19th floor. However, all these didn't stop me from going out. Grace, Kevin, XiaoHo and Grace's mom came to pick me up, my father was really not too happy to let me go out. He thinks it is so dangerous if anything falls while we are driving. As usual, we ignored him and proceeded as scheduled. Great day to go shopping, the shops are empty and the most amazing thing is that shops are still open!