A few photos and a video from Kaohsiung's main harbour. My assumption is that the flying containers are empty, otherwise they should withstand the wind a bit better.

影／山陀兒登陸！高雄港區貨櫃飛天 15噸鐵架被吹倒、「5樓高巨浪」來襲 | 各地嚴防山陀兒 | 地方 | 聯合新聞網 https://udn.com/news/story/7327/8267960

We do actually have a fourth day off, which is totally unprecedented, so the mayor had to explain his decision. According to him, about 80k households were without power, some 300k without water (I have both) and many schools were littered with debris. I do wonder though how serious it is, because Taipower goes out even during a typhoon to restore power access.

Anyway, that was a very extraordinary typhoon, but now it's gone. Temperatures dropped to 24C and I actually had to get a blanket for sleeping. Today we should reach 29~30 again...
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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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Now the typhoon is here.

I will need to have a closer look at the umbrella that tried to protect me during my short dash to the sea wall, perhaps I can fix it. And did I mention that touch screens are not exactly compatible with rainstorms? Now I have.

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