My apartment is facing south and on the water which means I take the wind full-on (and serve to knock it down for all the buildings behind mine). But that also means the likelihood of an object coming through a window is slim (because there are no objects).
It was crazy. Easily the strongest and scariest typhoon I have experienced (of many). My window panes were flexing and I was very nervous one of them was going to break. I had thankfully brought my sit-in kayak in next to my apartment building but it was still getting blown around so I had to keep moving it with the adjusting wind. This also made me aware that my old sit-on kayak, which is in a very protected spot, might not be safe. I grabbed my flashlights and ventured out into the storm, finding it challenging to stay upright. When I got to the kayak spot by the river, it was gone. It and the tree it was tied to had blown away! I quickly walked upriver and happened to spot it floating downriver. I knew if it made it out to the ocean it would be long gone, so I plunged into the river to catch it before it floated past. I succeeded in grabbing it while simultaneously realizing my phone was in my left pocket. I grabbed it out and put it in my jacket pocket without any damage. I retied the kayak to a bigger tree in a more protected place and it was still there this morning.
Lots of videos and pictures so I'll quit with the storytelling:
[flexing window panes]
[saltwater - not rain - blowing up from the ocean and into my apartment]
[power's out till 4am, more water seeping in through every crack in the windows]
[saltwater blowing into the village, as seen in headlights]
[what was left of my chair on my balcony]
[this sign post broke off]
[all these plants had flowers yesterday..]
[this boat was originally centered on the trailer. They used an excavator to get it back to center before launching it today]
[the boats that were too big to be pulled from the water - they were saved by these bow lines. I saw them rocking last night and they looked like toys in a bathtub with an obnoxious little kid]
[a few of many]
[my pink kayak is seen on the left where I retied it after plucking it from the river last night]
[I actually found most of my chair a few blocks away]
2 comments:
just for the record - diving into the river during a typhoon isn't exactly staying safe, but it is sort of bad ass.
Glad to hear you escaped river swimming during a typhoon unscathed! I had been a little worried about your safety inside your apartment, but it was good to know you moved to a safer location when the winds got into the triple digits :-).
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