Come Away with Me

Typhoon No. 13

Typhoon 13 was expected to reach Nagasaki on Sunday and Goto island to be hit the hardest at around 5pm in the afternoon.

I left my tv on since the moment i woke up just to be sure that i was following the latest updates on the whereabts of the typhoon. Staying in Singapore where there are hardly any major weather changes, it took me quite a while to cultivate the habit of tuning in to the daily weather news.

By noon time, i've received several phone calls from teachers and some other kind people in my neighbourhood to spend the afternoon at their place should i be afraid to be on my own when the typhoon approaches. I ended up following a teacher to take shelter at the nearby town office where the building seems more able to withstand strong wind and rain than my rickety old teacher's housing.

Hanasaki sensei came over to pick me up and brought along some gum tape and we taped the windows in my house together. This was how my place looked like just before i left home for the town office. It's kind of sad and scary looking but that's cos i was in a rush to leave the house and didn't had the time to switch on the kitchen light. The rest of the windows in the house were all taped up like this.

It was not until after the typhoon passed by us that i was told that it was one of the strongest typhoon Kyushuu had in 10 years, in term of the extent of damage left behind by the raging storm. I was glad that i went to the town office afterall as there were quite a number of people there. It would have been quite a terrifying experience if i were home alone and kept having to wonder when is my rooftop gonna be blown off. So my first typhoon experience was spent at Narao yakuba surfing the net and cooking udon for dinner as the wind and rain raged on outside till about 10pm at night.

posted by テレサ @ 9:37 PM