HEAVY WEATHER 2009: MOLAVE (UPDATE)
Jul. 20th, 2009 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogIt’s over. Actually it was over this morning, but we’ve been busy.
Molave turned out to be a Signal 9 (out of a possible 10) typhoon – wind speeds clocking in at about 140kph. The good news: no fatalities (apart from 60 trees citywide and the bus stop sign outside our building), and the center made landfall just to the east of Kowloon which basically those of us on the west side didn’t get the full impact.
The bad news: it was still pretty heavy. Which was an issue for the Def Citadel for two (2) reasons:
1. This was our first typhoon in the new flat, which meant we didn’t know how leakproof the windows were. This is important because typhoon winds will basically shove rainwater through any gap available. (To get an idea, next time you get yr car washed in an automatic washer, crack the window just a hair. Then imagine the water jet speed cranked up by a factor of 20. Bring towels.) And the only way to find the leaks – and plug them with thirsty bath towels – is to watch and wait.
2. Molave hit land at around two o’clock in the goddamn morning, just before I fell asleep. Two hours later we were running around mitigating water damage and taking photos to to show the landlord that the HK$100,000 he spent renovating the flat didn’t buy him leakproof windows.
Consequently, we got very little sleep.
Luckily I’m used to that.
Anyway, the bright side is that we know where to put the towels next time.
Meanwhile, we have video, if yr interested.
Not of my flat, or even my village. but from Tai Po.
Not exactly a Storm Chasers episode, I know. And HK is overall strikingly typhoon-resistant, compared to our immediate neighbors. Still, we get a number of these every year, and they’re not always light-impact.
Blow-dried,
This is dF
Molave turned out to be a Signal 9 (out of a possible 10) typhoon – wind speeds clocking in at about 140kph. The good news: no fatalities (apart from 60 trees citywide and the bus stop sign outside our building), and the center made landfall just to the east of Kowloon which basically those of us on the west side didn’t get the full impact.
The bad news: it was still pretty heavy. Which was an issue for the Def Citadel for two (2) reasons:
1. This was our first typhoon in the new flat, which meant we didn’t know how leakproof the windows were. This is important because typhoon winds will basically shove rainwater through any gap available. (To get an idea, next time you get yr car washed in an automatic washer, crack the window just a hair. Then imagine the water jet speed cranked up by a factor of 20. Bring towels.) And the only way to find the leaks – and plug them with thirsty bath towels – is to watch and wait.
2. Molave hit land at around two o’clock in the goddamn morning, just before I fell asleep. Two hours later we were running around mitigating water damage and taking photos to to show the landlord that the HK$100,000 he spent renovating the flat didn’t buy him leakproof windows.
Consequently, we got very little sleep.
Luckily I’m used to that.
Anyway, the bright side is that we know where to put the towels next time.
Meanwhile, we have video, if yr interested.
Not of my flat, or even my village. but from Tai Po.
Not exactly a Storm Chasers episode, I know. And HK is overall strikingly typhoon-resistant, compared to our immediate neighbors. Still, we get a number of these every year, and they’re not always light-impact.
Blow-dried,
This is dF
