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Huh. Today I learned.

Our warning was for 150 km/h winds, which is apparently off the Beaufort Scale.

Seems like the eye is making its way through now, and then it’ll be getting rough again.

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Keep getting these typhoon wind warnings. Finally went to the website explaining the scale — we’re at level 14, which sounds about right based on the racket that wind outside is making. Stuff strewn all over the street outside my house already.
#typhoonpodul #taitung

Turns out this warning was warranted. The rain is alright but the wind out there is fierce right now. Sounds like a plane taking off over and over. Strongest typhoon I’ve experienced in some years. Power is flickering.

YouTube video by Earth Uncut TV Typhoon Podul LIVE Storm Chaser Coverage In Taiwan

My storm-chasing friends have a live feed from SE Taiwan right now of the landfall of typhoon #11

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Yep! Taitung government called off work and school last night. Already been raining heavily and a little windy. Long hours ahead!

Professional snake catcher retrieving a snake from under a piece of furniture in kitchen

The typhoon day started off with a surprise in my kitchen! 🐍

Thank goodness for a good landlord who has a snake guy on speed dial. Didn’t like the part where I had to help lift the furniture to get the rest of it loose, but thankful it’s gone now. *shudder*

11/22/63 by Stephen King is quite good.

First time seeing this particular warning during a typhoon. This one is shaping up to be a biggie.
#typhoonpodul #taitung

YouTube video by Amazing Taitung 台東就醬玩 【4K】台東金樽 即時影像 Taitung Jinzun Live Camera

Donghe seems a lot less calm but still not too bad: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3KJ...

Seems unlikely, so far!

YouTube video by Amazing Taitung 台東就醬玩 【4K】台東杉原灣即時影像 Taitung Shanyuan Bay Live Camera

Live stream from Taitung, Taiwan — no obvious tsunami waves so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqS_...

A screen capture from TVBS News showing the sea and a rocky beach with two rescue workers and a dog in the foreground and around 8 people watching for the tsunami to arrive.

Crossposted from TVBS on Threads: the scene in Hualien, Taiwan, as the tsunami from the M8.8 earthquake in Kamchatka arrives.

Surprised those folks are allowed to stay there.

Tsunami warning for Taiwan:
Less than 30cm for northern Taiwan
30cm to 1 meter for southern Taiwan

Tsunami estimated to arrive at about 12:40 in Hokkaido (Sapporo). 1pm in Niigata. Just before 2pm in Okinawa (Naha I guess).

Taiwan: 1:19pm local time in Hualien, 1:24 in Taitung, 1:52pm in Keelung, 2:06pm in Kaohsiung.

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Well spotted.

A little rattle down here in Taitung. First time getting the mobile earthquake alert in a couple of months. Could tell it was local before the data was published because there wasn’t a peep on my timeline about it. XD

YouTube video by Dogs Wiz Taiwan Dog - Top 10 Facts (Formosan Mountain Dog)

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In his younger days, and now graying and losing his hair. His ears are always the first thing people comment on!

I have a mix (he’s half Schnauzer with a Schnauzer face and hair and the rest Formosan Mountain Dog, including huge pointy ears), and he’s the loveliest dog I’ve ever known. He’s 16 now and I don’t know if I’ll ever have another dog, but if I do, I’ll absolutely adopt another Formosan/Formosan mix.

2/13（四）19:00在台東晃晃書店見！

情人節前夕，晃晃會有一場特別的講座，是來自荷蘭的譯者 Annelous Stiggelbout（施露）要來分享三毛的故事，《撒哈拉的故事》的荷蘭文本《Berichten uit de Sahara》是她的譯作之一。
主題：翻譯三毛 Translating Sanmao
地點：晃晃書店
#台東 #台灣

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Caidaoist. Purely Vietnamese, as far as I know.

Great Divine Temple - Wikipedia

This one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_D...

I did the same for so many years. When I realized it was ADHD the whole time, it felt like a weight lifted — I stopped regretting all those college majors, endless hobbies, career trajectories. They weren’t failures, it turned out. They just made me into a uniquely skilled and adaptable person! 😁

I visited a multi-faith place like this in Vietnam. Didn’t realize Taiwan had something similar.

Trump pauses tariffs on millions of low-value packages from China President Donald Trump has paused the imposition of tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China.

President Donald Trump has paused imposing tariffs on small-value packages arriving from #China, apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how to process millions of such shipments that have come through the U.S. border every day without paying taxes.

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I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

Thank you! Deleting now!!! (All this hassle for a couple of coloring books and pencils 🤦)

Did you ever get this to work? I’m in the same boat! New passport number and new APRC number (not to mention the app insists on an expiration date for the APRC when one doesn’t exist)