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ST Doksuri spared Xiamen

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The super typhoon that is now wreaking havoc in Jinjiang, Fujian Province is named Doksuri which is the Korean term for “eagle.”

I don’t know much about movements of typhoons but as I was checking the forecast for Doksuri last night, I thought the name is really apt. There are 6 agencies monitoring the typhoon and all of them predicted a path that was west of Xiamen, but Doksuri moved towards the east of Xiamen. Like a proud bird who knows what it wants.

I was texting with a couple of friends last night, both of whom live alone. And they both said they wouldn’t be able to sleep remembering how scary Meranti was in 2016. I told them the typhoon was moving very slow at 20km/hr, which meant it wouldn’t reach Xiamen in the middle of the night.

Indeed when I woke up at 5am, there was no rain at all.

And when it did finally rain, it wasn’t the kind of rain we expected.

Apart from a few broken branches and fallen bikes, I did not see much damage at least on our campus.

Xiamen has been spared.

Workers rush to get rid of a broken branch blocking a road

Super Typhoon Doksuri

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I took this video this morning, less than 24 hours before Doksuri (called Egay in the Philippines) is expected to hit Xiamen early tomorrow morning.

If I can, I will upload videos or photos after Doksuri has passed.

When Meranti hit Xiamen in 2016, I was in the Philippines for a week. So this is going to be my first super typhoon. My husband thinks I’m over preparing, but I prefer to be overprepared than underprepared.

I missed Doksuri when it hit the Philippines; I left the country the afternoon before it made landfall yesterday. I was quite nervous boarding the plane, expecting scary turbulence but it was not so bad. I’ve experienced worse.

The weather was actually pretty nice when I arrived in Xiamen.

This is the calm before the storm.