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Q: For you guys in the south - ever experienced a typhoon?
I'm just peering out the window in Beijing and it's looking blacker than black which tells me the apocalypse is here or it's about to p*ss it down with rain. We have a rainy season here in Beijing (which caused flooding last year), though obviously it's nothing compared to anyone down south. I hear even Shanghai gets them - so compared to a normal heavy rainstorm, what's a typhoon like? Sorry for the "dumbness" of this question but I've always been curious about extreme weather.
We had one roll through Ningbo a couple years ago. Heavy rain, coupled with heavy winds. Add in the usual suspect of poor drainage, which then adds the facet of flooding. It kinda sucks. The upside is when a typhoon comes through, but you don't get hit directly. They usually come through during the hottest parts of Summer, but when they sort of skirt the area, you get a couple days of cooler breezy weather....a nice reprieve from the usual muggy summer.
I think we had 3 recorded typhoons last year .... I love it..... didn't much affect my home, but I went for a bike ride the day after one of them and saw quite a bit of destruction (trees down, clogged drains) .... really not as spectacular as sometimes heard on the news .... very localized destruction ................... last night, we had bigger winds and heavier short downpour than I have ever seen before..... ferocious unpredicted winds........... getting a pretty good blast again this afternoon ........... I like it, beautiful Zhanjiang.
Just about every time it rains here .. downpours ... I tell my Chinese family that I am going to see Mom (mother-in-law). going to Yóuyǒng 游泳 ..... her street, right in the middle of downtown, floods every time it rains...... tough to drain these big rains when you live at sea level
why do you equate black with sth bad? damn racist.
hey it does look really black out there must be a really bad storm coming.
Yes, last year and the year before we had some typhoons. Especially last year a big one hit. Hong Kong classified it as the worst in many years and as I am just 50km from downtown HK it was pretty significant here. The rain a typhoon brings is amazing, the wind speeds pretty scary. The big one last year tore up some old trees downtown, in our community where everything is newly planted about half of all trees where knocked over. I did some research at some point where someone had compared the forced the winds push onto a building with that of earthquakes. High typhoon winds is about the same force onto a highrise as a 1-2 richter earthquake (which is barely something humans will notice) Still, I feel for the farmers living in small home built houses with metal sheeting as roof, cannot be much left.
if u are interested in extreme weather,,, I can tell u a waaaay cool,, weird, surrealistic type experience is sitting through the Eye of a Hurricane..... one of those things u have to experience to appreciate...
I lived many years on the coast (GOM). I didn't mean that it is cool that so many people suffer so badly.... just cool as in ,,,,hmmm.. a unique, (something) experience. my language skills are insufficient to share this feeling.....
Yes , Last August i was in Zhuhai the 2 days of the Typhoon, Half of the City's trees broke and fell down. lots of signs rip off. All night the sound of the wind was so loud , we could not sleep. The next day i was very sad to walk among collapsed trees and destroyed gardens
