HEAVY WEATHER 2011: NESAT!
Sep. 29th, 2011 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogTyphoon: we has one.
Well, sort of. Typhoon Nesat is 350 km away from us right now, and isn’t going to get any closer. But it’s close enough to generate 90 kph winds in the harbour, which means the No. 8 signal (i.e. the signal that means “Stay inside, and yr excused from work”) is in force.
It also meant a really loud night for us, as we live on the western outskirts in a coastal village, which means we’re geographically closer to Nesat and more exposed to the winds.
On the bright side, the weatherproofing we had done when we bought this place seems to be holding up.
Indeed, this is the first chance we’ve had to test it. HK has been dodging typhoons the past couple of years. The South China Sea has been generating plenty of them but somehow they’ve all managed to land Somewhere Else. Or, when they did make it here, they had weakened so much as to not warrant any real alarm.
Anyway, we’re battened down for the time being. And we have plenty of breakfast cereal, Jack Daniel’s and Internet, as well as a 2500+ CD library. So we’re good.
Let it blow,
This is dF
Well, sort of. Typhoon Nesat is 350 km away from us right now, and isn’t going to get any closer. But it’s close enough to generate 90 kph winds in the harbour, which means the No. 8 signal (i.e. the signal that means “Stay inside, and yr excused from work”) is in force.
It also meant a really loud night for us, as we live on the western outskirts in a coastal village, which means we’re geographically closer to Nesat and more exposed to the winds.
On the bright side, the weatherproofing we had done when we bought this place seems to be holding up.
Indeed, this is the first chance we’ve had to test it. HK has been dodging typhoons the past couple of years. The South China Sea has been generating plenty of them but somehow they’ve all managed to land Somewhere Else. Or, when they did make it here, they had weakened so much as to not warrant any real alarm.
Anyway, we’re battened down for the time being. And we have plenty of breakfast cereal, Jack Daniel’s and Internet, as well as a 2500+ CD library. So we’re good.
Let it blow,
This is dF
