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#CatTravels: Scenes from Typhoon Soulik

By Catherine Toth Fox • July 12, 2013 • #CatTravels, Videos

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Talk about an adventure.

We traveled on Hawaiian Airlines‘ inaugural flight from Honolulu to Taipei City in Taiwan, with an itinerary of places to visit and things to eat. But we didn’t expect to be hunkered down in our hotel room for 24 hours, waiting out a Category 3 typhoon.

Typhoon Soulik hit Taipei and other parts of northern Taiwan overnight, forcing hundreds to evacuate and businesses and schools to close.

The Yilan area on the coast was inundated with high surf — good thing my surf trip got cancelled! — and parts of northern Taiwan saw flooding and other damage.

But here, it wasn’t too bad.

Yes, it was windy and raining and it probably wasn’t the best idea to be outdoors at 2 a.m. — which we were — but it seemed like a massive tropical storm, not so much a typhoon, and we’re just hoping the worst is over.

Because we still have things to do!

Here are some scenes over the past couple of days and a video taken the morning after the typhoon hit.

Calm before the storm

Calm before the storm
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I took this photo yesterday morning, after a nice swim in the pool at the W Taipei. Hard to believe how quickly the weather would change.

Thanks to everyone who sent us emails, text messages, DMs, tweets, and Facebook and Instagram comments about the storm and your concern. We really appreciate it!

Follow my adventures in Taipei on Twitter @thedailydish and on Instagram @catherinetoth. Special thanks to Hawaiian Airlines for allowing me to be part of this special inaugural flight.

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#CatTravels: Eating through Taipei
#CatTravels: Tea and tiramisu before the typhoon

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6 Comments

  • Reply Annoddah_Dave July 12, 2013 at 3:32 pm

    da Typhoon Twins: I guess the worst part now will be trying to find something to eat! Good thing you still have power and water. Not having a bathroom for more than a day is worst than starving for that amount of time. I think the “man-bread” would taste pretty damn guud about now!!LOL

    • Reply Catherine Toth July 13, 2013 at 8:25 pm

      Typhoon Twins? LOL! Love it!

  • Reply M July 12, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    Hello Cat!
    Glad both of you got through it safe!

    • Reply Catherine Toth July 13, 2013 at 8:25 pm

      Thanks!

  • Reply David Jackson July 12, 2013 at 6:42 pm

    Cool, Taipei town is protected from the worst of typhoons by the surrounding areas, looks like it was like when I was there during a typhoon. It was like 40-50 winds at the height of it. No where near as much fun as the earthquake that knocked over every moped as far as the eye could see.

    • Reply Catherine Toth July 13, 2013 at 8:26 pm

      Agree, thanks to topography! I think I’d be more afraid of an earthquake. Hawaii folks are used to hurricanes!

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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