Two Typhoons, a Birthday, and Being Sick Everywhere

So I'm writing this during lunch, primarily because I can't face eating anything at the moment.

I'm feeling quite terrible, having eaten hateful chicken wrapped in hate and loathing.  At the time it tasted quite nice, but even as I was eating it something unpalatable crept along my spine.  This unpalatable feeling stemmed from the myriad diseases the establishment puts into the food.  The upshot is that I feel quite vile, but the life of a foreign teacher is irriplaceable - unless you die, there's no getting out of work.

In reply to the question about prior storms; yes we have had our storm.  It was pathetic.  We then proceeded to have another storm immediately following, seemingly along the same path.  In a sudden and unexpected turn (sic) of events, it altered heading and veered straight towards us.  In the first 'eye of the storm encounter,' (TM) I have ever had, wind speeds exceeded forty miles per hour.  That's nothing, frankly.  It didn't even turn my umbrella inside out, while walking along the street.

I was exceedingly disappointed, as per usual, but the rain was quite spectacular.  120 mm in two days, I think that's some kind of record, to be frank.  That's two to three months of rainfall, in a day.

What's even more impressive, is that the lag time between rainfall and peak river flow, from cursory observation, is exceedingly small.  This means that the vast majority of the rain that falls, finds its way into the rivers, and in short order.  I would imagine flooding is or was a major problem around Korea, as the abundance of steep-sided mountains means the rain is funneled extremely quickly into the rivers.  When we travelled over the river after the days work, it was extremely high (still nowhere near capacity) and by the next day it was back to normal levels.

And there ends the geography based geeky interest in the landscape of this island.

It rained a hell of a lot, for the summarised version.