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.
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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
Typhoon Twins? LOL! Love it!
Hello Cat!
Glad both of you got through it safe!
Thanks!
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.
Agree, thanks to topography! I think I’d be more afraid of an earthquake. Hawaii folks are used to hurricanes!