Formosahut forum - Typhoon Aere

Typhoon Aere (reply)

dan — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 07:15:58 +0000

Yeah back briefly but working every day so may not make it over there this time. We'll be back in a few short months and will try to get over then.

Still raining here.

Typhoon Aere (reply)

dulan drift — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 14:16:49 +0000

So you're back on the island! Coming over for a visit?

There's been a lull for the last few hours, but looks like it's ready to crank right back up again. We're over 400 mil in the Dong He area - that's already the biggest rain i've experienced here and looks to be plenty more where that came from.

To be honest, i'm a bit nervous about what tonight is gonna bring. There haven't been any calls to evacuate, but there probably should be.

http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7/observe/radar/Data/HD_Radar/CV1_3600_201610072200.png

Typhoon Aere (reply)

dan — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:56:52 +0000

And it's certainly raining here in Kaohsiung. And I saw this yesterday at the university. I'm guessing this is from Megi. (Meanwhile, Hurricane Mathew is pounding Florida. Hope we have a house left.)

Typhoon Aere

dulan drift — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 10:18:02 +0000

This is turning into the little typhoon that could. The actual storm is tiny, and it's already passed Taiwan, but it's got this tail thing happening that's causing major havoc on the east coast of Taiwan. Somehow this small typhoon has organized this massive stream of rain into its orbit it's all feeding directly into the east coast of Taiwan.

400 mil already for Dong He and no sense that it's anywhere near over. In fact Aere is predicted to stall in its current location and as such this could go on for several more days.

Already we have:

Section of road collapsed into the sea just south of Dulan

Several Landslides between Dulan and Taidong city including at both the recently green-lighted mega-resort development sites - which, despite evidence presented by protesters showing those sites were extremely prone to landslides, were 'assessed' by the Land Consevation Department and given the thumbs up. That's criminal greed that is destined to cost lives if either of those resorts are ever built.