{"id":1172,"date":"2013-07-14T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2013-07-14T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T12:32:08","slug":"life-after-the-typhoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/07\/14\/life-after-the-typhoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Life after the typhoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just wanted to write a quick post about the typhoon. For those of you\u00a0 who don’t know a typhoon is the same thing as a hurricane in the states. It’s\u00a0 called different things in different parts of the world. (If you didn’t know\u00a0 this don’t feel bad I had to google it after every one kept talking about\u00a0 preparing for the typhoon :))\u00a0Friday night\u00a0on our way to the hotel\u00a0the wind was very high. Buildings had put tape on\u00a0 the glass to keep the windows from breaking (Idk how it works). Things like the\u00a0 bird in the house that could be blown away by the “strong winds” were moved. It started raining early\u00a0Saturday morning and continued until around 8\u00a0Saturday night. I woke up\u00a0 around\u00a03AM Saturday morning\u00a0and\u00a0 could hear the wind and rain clearly. Imagine the worst\/loudest thunder storm\u00a0 you have experienced minus the thunder and lightening haha. We decided to stay\u00a0 inside because of the advice from our Taiwanese friends and quite frankly\u00a0 because we were exhausted from the past week. I slept like never before lol (I\u00a0 actually slept through the end of the typhoon). Afterwards we went to get dinner\u00a0 and the entire city had returned to normal. People were out and the traffic was\u00a0 heavy. A park close to the university was hit soo hard. Trees were uprooted and\u00a0 shredded all from wind. I was so surprised at how calm everyone from here was.\u00a0 Then it dawned on me just another day in the life of the Taiwanese. I did not\u00a0 really understand the severity of what I had just experienced until I saw the\u00a0 damage. Seeing images of hurricanes like Katrina is one thing but to really\u00a0 experience it is completely different. I have the utmost respect for people who experience these things consistently.<\/p>\n

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I just wanted to write a quick post about the typhoon. For those of you\u00a0 who don’t know a typhoon is the same thing as a hurricane in the states. It’s\u00a0 called different things in different parts of the world. (If you didn’t know\u00a0 this don’t feel bad I had to google it after every one kept talking about\u00a0 preparing for the typhoon :))\u00a0Friday night\u00a0on our way to the hotel\u00a0the wind was very high. Buildings had put tape on\u00a0 the glass to keep the windows from breaking (Idk how it works). Things like the\u00a0 bird in the house that could … \/\/ Read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taiwan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}