Sunday, September 28, 2008

Typhoon JangMi 颱風薔蜜

Finally, today will be the day when Typhoon JangMi 颱風薔蜜 will hit the North Eastern shores of Taiwan.


Typhoon JangMi's track (picture courtesy of Yahoo! Taiwan)

Jangmi had a radius of 250 km and was moving northwest at a speed of 24 km per hour, with maximum sustained center winds of 154.8 kph and gusts reaching 190.8 kph. It is predicted to arrive on the shores of Taiwan at around 6pm this evening.

I have prepared some food enough to last me for at least 2 days for this nature disaster. So for this episode of "Twister", I just stay at home and chill...


1:24pm update: Me and my homey just went to the nearest 7-eleven to get our lunch on foot. Gosh, it was indeed a helluva experience. Almost got blown of my feet. Clouds above our heads were really fast-moving.


walking to se-ven (as how the locals here call it)



shopping for lunch

2:54pm update: The winds are showing no signs of calming down. Check out the video below (pardon the silence, cuz my camera does not have a speaker, but in actual fact the sound of the wind increased the drama and effects of the whole scenario).

Take notice that how bad the sugar cane plants are trying to whithstand the wind.

8 comments:

Dr. C said...

ho ho ho.......... u were looking forward to it.... did u like the typhoon feel? I'm sure it's quite an experience yea?

mmm.. take care of yourself oh! :D

Don't get blown away, or else u'll get a free ticket back to malaysia!! hahahahahaha......

Louis said...

might even get free ticket to NZ or Aussie. LOL....

Dr. C said...

NZ's on daylight savings time now. so our time is like 5 hours ahead of Malaysia's time...
:)

oh good good!! free ticket to NZ/OZ will be good.
I'll bring u around.... make sure u bring your camera along!

Louis said...

okie... that means it's 7:40pm now in NZ?

okies... will put on my jump suit and fly to NZ. hopefully i land at the correct spot.

oh yeah, do i need to bring my passport too?

Dr. C said...

LOLLL!!! u should...
later u wanna mintak PR.. how leh? no passport cannot mintak...
hahaha! yeah.. it's 7.45pm now.

Louis said...

my oh my...even if i do take off from taiwan, i dont think i'll ever make it in one piece to your place.

wind is getting stronger by the hour.

kinda scary...

or2ng3s said...

yuhoo~~~ interesting experience or not? :p take care ya. luckily u're 'heavy' enuf to stay on the ground not to be blown away. :p

Louis said...

the typhoon was amazing. i did went outdoors to experience it first-hand. really really strong leh...