Today shortly after noon we received a cell broadcast warning that #typhoon #Krathon arrived at our location. I assume that the centre was meant, even though it didn't feel like the eye of the storm.

I put on bike jacket and baseball cap to go out for another photo, an umbrella wouldn't have worked well. This typhoon is not normal. It is extraordinarily slow, which is the main problem. You see, wind is mainly a problem at sea. I'm sure a lot of boats get damaged this time, but on land the main problem is rain. The wind will push the rain into any place that is not properly sealed and a lot of water will accumulate. And the longer such large amounts of water rain down, the bigger the problems.

The slowest typhoon I had encountered before was Morakot ("the deadliest typhoon to impact Taiwan in recorded history"), which took two days to pass us. Usually a typhoon will be gone within a few hours. If you're lucky, it will be blue skies afterwards. If not, a week of rain. For Morakot we got two days off, for Krathon it's already three and I think they will have to keep schools closed tomorrow too, which makes four consecutive days off due to a typhoon. I wonder what the final stats will be...
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