The eye of the storm

[CanOz]

Just got done mopping up a bucket of water from the kitchen floor. Can't see Shanghai being open for trading today and haven't had time to check yet anyway. That's us, the little yellow dot...

Pretty wet n windy here...

CanOz

 

[CanOz]

My very first typhoon. I thought it would be fun, but now I'm toweling up 20 liters of water an hour...

 

[Gringotts Bank]

Pretty wet n windy here...

CanOz

lol, I think I'd be switching the computer off.

 

[CanOz]

lol, I think I'd be switching the computer off.

Correction, 60 liters an hour and no one even knows what the F*** a wet vac is!!

I asked one of my mates here if he had one, he manages a factory for Mitchel Australia, his roof just blew off, can't help me right now LOL!

CanOz

 

[Gringotts Bank]

Correction, 60 liters an hour and no one even knows what the F*** a wet vac is!!

I asked one of my mates here if he had one, he manages a factory for Mitchel Australia, his roof just blew off, can't help me right now LOL!

CanOz

whoah! Well if you insist on leaving your computer on, how bout recording it on your webcam! Sell it to the news media!

Good luck.

 

[CanOz]

whoah! Well if you insist on leaving your computer on, how bout recording it on your webcam! Sell it to the news media!

Good luck.

LOL, too busy mopping up water, although the wind has changed now, so its much better

 

[skc]

Lol. I thought you were talking about the current calm market being the eye of the storm.

Anyway - takecare. Water and electricity don't mix!

 

[CanOz]

LOL, too busy mopping up water, although the wind has changed now, so its much better

Must be close to the center now, very bright outside again

 

[CanOz]

Lol. I thought you were talking about the current calm market being the eye of the storm.

Anyway - takecare. Water and electricity don't mix!

Thanks for the well wishes mate!!

 

[Joules MM1]

Must be close to the center now, very bright outside again

some people know exactly how ya feel....
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/06/volcano_erupts_in_chile.html



the rest even more impressive

 

[sails]

Take care CanOz. I remember being in Hong Kong during a typhoon and the eye passed over us. The calmness was quite spectacular and eery - until we reached the other side of the eye when all hell broke loose again. Don't go too far away if the eye passes over - you don't want to be caught outside when the winds hit with fury in the opposite direction!

 

[CanOz]

Take care CanOz. I remember being in Hong Kong during a typhoon and the eye passed over us. The calmness was quite spectacular and eery - until we reached the other side of the eye when all hell broke loose again. Don't go too far away if the eye passes over - you don't want to be caught outside when the winds hit with fury in the opposite direction!

Thanks Sails. I actually went outside for a brief glance at our kitchen window during the calm. I thought the bottom one had come loose and it behind the cupboards so i couldn't tell from the inside. The wind had shifted from the north to the west, so we're not taking the brunt of the storm on our windows for now. I've managed to clean everything up and now enjoying the show....wing, rain and rubbish.

Cheers,


CanOz

 

[CanOz]

This site has been very helpful in understanding how close the storm was to us here....

Not as good as the BOM in Australia but the next best thing...

CanOz

 

[Glen48]

Been raining on and off for 5 weeks here so you can have what we had.
Watch your toes for bits of meat growing between them could be getting web feet.

 

[CanOz]

Been raining on and off for 5 weeks here so you can have what we had.
Watch your toes for bits of meat growing between them could be getting web feet.

Yes, you guys normally cop the worst of the typhoon season don't you...

 

[Glen48]

Gutters filled with rubbish, weather forecasters not on the ball , lack of equipment gets them every year.
Had a bus hijack here a couple of years ago you may have seen, the Ambo's turn up with out any equipment, the head cops went to dinner in a near by dinner in the middle of it all ...nothing new..

 

[Julia]

I was thinking about you today, Glen, when I heard that Manila is three quarters under water?
Is that an exaggeration?
Are you in Manila?
How are you faring? It sounds dreadful.

 

[Glen48]

No probs. here well North here but it is nothing like I witness in OZ in 50 odd years sounds like jet plane when it comes in.
Thanks for your concern.
Think the prob with Manila is it all concrete and that amount of rain is hard to process , plus the 4 dams had to be opened just like Bris a few yrs ago.