Storm. Raining cats & dogs in Taipei city, 19:23 hrs
While there was an earthquake yesterday morning in central Taiwan measuring 6.1 in magnitude, there is now a thunderstorm and very loud rain tonight. In England, the label would be "extreme" weather. Here, it is just normal. Tragically, the earthquake killed at least one person, and injured about 86, according to one news source. I hear from a very trustworthy source back in the UK that the video clip of the earthquake was quite horrendous. The effects of which could be felt here in Taipei city. I've no idea what I was doing. Probably outside drooling over steamed dumplings that a street vendor was selling. Apparently if you're outside when a slight tremor hits - you're less likely to feel it compared with being indoors.
This was only a moderate earthquake.
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/5848/20130327/strong-6-1-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-taiwan-kills-injures-19.htm
Tonight, it is raining. When it rains in Taipei - it pours. Woooo-ah! Just when you think it can't rain any harder - it buckets down. The English concept of rain when it is 'normal' is much gentler. I don't know how to describe it here. It's not quite monsoon - but it is very loud, big fat, fast rain.
My plans to go and eat Beef Noodles at the famous Yong Kang Beef Noodle restaurant in the street parallel to the road I'm living in will be scuppered for the night, I reckon ... Still, one never knows, I may be in luck. Besides, I'm not exactly going to die of starvation in this apartment. (Sorry, just can't bring myself to use the 'correct' English word 'flat' on this occasion. It's wrong. Flats are called apartments in Taipei. The one 'flat' thing that immediately springs to mind is a 'yo bing' (second tone, third tone). Yo bing is what I call a Chinese version of a Keralan paratha. (The wonderful, beautiful, scrummy, deeeelicious, slightly oily, breads I couldn't eat the whole time I was in Kerala due to having a variety of lung infections.) Except yo bing has a tiny amount of chopped up spring onion. And like the paratha - you can eat them for breakfast. Yum yum yum yum yummeeeeee.
Thankfully, my normal voracious appetite has returned. I wonder what with this no smoking mallarkey whether I might be as big as a Shaolin Temple by this time next year ... I hope not, of course. I hope that I still have hollow, if not slightly Buerger'ed / buggered, legs.
While there was an earthquake yesterday morning in central Taiwan measuring 6.1 in magnitude, there is now a thunderstorm and very loud rain tonight. In England, the label would be "extreme" weather. Here, it is just normal. Tragically, the earthquake killed at least one person, and injured about 86, according to one news source. I hear from a very trustworthy source back in the UK that the video clip of the earthquake was quite horrendous. The effects of which could be felt here in Taipei city. I've no idea what I was doing. Probably outside drooling over steamed dumplings that a street vendor was selling. Apparently if you're outside when a slight tremor hits - you're less likely to feel it compared with being indoors.
This was only a moderate earthquake.
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/5848/20130327/strong-6-1-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-taiwan-kills-injures-19.htm
Tonight, it is raining. When it rains in Taipei - it pours. Woooo-ah! Just when you think it can't rain any harder - it buckets down. The English concept of rain when it is 'normal' is much gentler. I don't know how to describe it here. It's not quite monsoon - but it is very loud, big fat, fast rain.
My plans to go and eat Beef Noodles at the famous Yong Kang Beef Noodle restaurant in the street parallel to the road I'm living in will be scuppered for the night, I reckon ... Still, one never knows, I may be in luck. Besides, I'm not exactly going to die of starvation in this apartment. (Sorry, just can't bring myself to use the 'correct' English word 'flat' on this occasion. It's wrong. Flats are called apartments in Taipei. The one 'flat' thing that immediately springs to mind is a 'yo bing' (second tone, third tone). Yo bing is what I call a Chinese version of a Keralan paratha. (The wonderful, beautiful, scrummy, deeeelicious, slightly oily, breads I couldn't eat the whole time I was in Kerala due to having a variety of lung infections.) Except yo bing has a tiny amount of chopped up spring onion. And like the paratha - you can eat them for breakfast. Yum yum yum yum yummeeeeee.
Thankfully, my normal voracious appetite has returned. I wonder what with this no smoking mallarkey whether I might be as big as a Shaolin Temple by this time next year ... I hope not, of course. I hope that I still have hollow, if not slightly Buerger'ed / buggered, legs.
Morning Hedge! You asked us to blab about your blob on Facebook....if your Blogger is anything like WordPress, you should find a 'publicise' tag somewhere in settings which let's you direct your blog to post each new entry on Facebook everytime you 'publish'...That's what I do>? Are you getting any of my comments by way.? You have to approve them to see em here....Dan
ReplyDeleteThanks, Dantanian. I'm not sure that I can publicise without having to sign up and pay for Google+. Still trying to navigate myself around this. And not easy using the iPad, which I've mentioned is driving iMad at times. Didn't know you had a blog on WordPress. Send me a link please? And, Yes, I am getting your comments, and have replied to a couple. Thanks for being the first ever commenter! And most 'prolific' (ha) so far ... Bonce.
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