Oct 6, 2009
‘Nother typhoon
Typhoon Parma clobbered Taiwan this week. This time Yilan wasn’t as lucky: we caught the brunt of it. The funny thing about this typhoon was that the damaging part wasn’t the wind, but the amount of rain. We got record amounts of rain, which caused a lot of flooding and accompanying property damage, but not a lot of damage from the wind. The kids and I got a day and half off school for “typhoon day.”
Here’s a picture of the Yilan River the day after. You can see pretty significant flooding:
I always said the translation of “typhoon” was “the most rain you’ve ever seen in your life.”
We get snow days, you get typhoon days. Remind the boys of that come winter!