Hell of a storm

by Robert Koehler on September 2, 2010

Didn’t really notice it while it was happening, but boy, did I notice what it left behind when I went to work this morning…

{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

1 jdog2050 September 2, 2010 at 12:59 pm: Kind of disappointed actually. It was certainly loud as hell, but it didn’t rain enough to cool everything off for a few weeks. I wanted torrential, biblical flooding.
2 Wedge September 2, 2010 at 1:11 pm: Funny how a guy could sleep through all that and then not even know anything happened until getting downtown.
3 milton September 2, 2010 at 1:29 pm: Didn’t realize it hit either…before I went to bed, landfall was forecasted to occur at noon today. I woke up around 8, heard some wind and rain and then went to take a shower. When I got out of the shower, it was drizzling a bit and I thought to myself that the storm had probably given Seoul a pass, or that it had weakened so much that it was hardly worth thinking about. Then I went outside. What I saw was completely unexpected: lots of downed trees, lots of broken glass, garbage everywhere, huge signs down—it was quite a sight.

Checking the weather radar, I see that my area took a direct hit from the brunt of the storm. I’m surprised I could sleep through that. This also appears to be the first Cat 1 typhoon to hit the Seoul metro area (according to a brief search of Weather Underground’s archives) since records began.

I’m disappointed I missed it. Nature’s fury is always a sight to behold.
4 jefferyhodges September 2, 2010 at 3:02 pm: I witnessed it. I get up regularly at 3 a.m. to blog, so I noticed the rushing wind and closed the window to just a crack, but as the gusts blasted harder, I had to shut even that, but I could hear things rolling around outside, and noise of other things scraping across the parking lot — plastic, or metal, I reckoned. Around 3:30 or so, calm descended, and I wondered if the very eye of the storm was passing. Apparently so. The wind later picked up again. I even got blasted around 6:30 as I was heading to Mangu Station, an 8-minute walk from my apartment, but managed somehow to protect both myself and my umbrella. I discovered the trains weren’t running there at Mangu, so I rushed to catch a taxi as gusts now blew my cap off. I caught it and the taxi and headed for Ewha. Along the way, I saw a lot of minor destruction and even one large tree felled halfway across the three lanes, forcing the oncoming traffic to share our side of the street. I began to wonder if going to work this morning was a good idea, but I made it and learned from a colleague that the brunt of the storm had passed on to the North Country. It’s their problem now . . .

Jeffery Hodges

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5 Sr Noob September 2, 2010 at 4:05 pm: > lots of downed trees, lots of broken glass, garbage everywhere,
> huge signs down

Sounds like the morning after Club Day in Hongdae each month.
6 Darth Babaganoosh September 3, 2010 at 7:52 am: A student of mine mentioned that his family “lost” their balcony during the storm. We barely got anything in Daejeon, so I had to ask where they lived. I think he said they lived out in Bucheon(?).
7 Arghaeri September 4, 2010 at 10:23 pm: Darth, between Incheon and Seoul