On the eighth day, a 17-level typhoon - Usagi , was trapped in Xuhai
was trapped in Xuhai "my legal homestay", and I couldn't go out for half a day. There was a violent storm outside, the roar of Fengming Mountain was earth-shattering, and the house was trembling slightly. Only then did I know that what my friend Awen was worried about yesterday was not alarmist. This is the first time I have heard of a 17-level typhoon, and it is the first time I have personally experienced it.
The electricity in the room stopped and stopped suddenly, and the mobile phone signal was intermittent. After 7 o'clock in the evening, the electricity completely stopped, and the network signal was completely interrupted, so we couldn't do anything. We could only stand by the window occasionally and look out the window. A stormy scene.
At noon, a police car drove past the door, and an incomprehensible call came from the car radio. It was only later that I realized that it was calling the villagers near the sea to move back.
My wife was a little scared, so she went downstairs to ask the landlord, who said, "Don't worry, even if there is an earthquake of magnitude 8, my house will not have the slightest problem." Indeed, her house is the tallest and most magnificent in Xuhai Village It is also the strongest building, even the windows are double-layer aluminum alloy windows, each layer of windows is double-layer tempered glass , adding up to four layers of tempered glass.
Live TV screen shows "Tenth level 10 wind uproots trees, Level 12 house is destroyed, Usagi level 17"
"The wind of level 17 is so powerful that the refueling gun is torn off, the tree is broken in the middle"
"The wind and rain intensified across Taiwan in the early morning, Huadong The rainfall in the mountainous area is estimated to be 1100 millimeters, and the Hengchun Peninsula and Taitung may have a force 16 wind, the second strongest hurricane to hit Taiwan in 20 years."
The landlord is 64 years old and his hometown is in Kaohsiung. After going to the hot spring here, I never want to go home again, so I simply built this house here and started a B&B. She said that if it wasn't for the typhoon, it would definitely be full today, and now only our family of three is staying. So we received special care from her like disaster victims: free food and drink, chatting with us like family members.
learned that I like to drink some wine (in fact, I only like it when I am riding a long distance), and I specially stewed a pot of "Medicinal Drunken Chicken". Came to stew, so the soup was bitter, not for my taste at all. But out of politeness, I still pretended to eat with relish until I was dizzy. It turns out that the "drunk" in " drunk chicken " is not just literal, but really intoxicating.
This day, I was a little anxious, a little relieved, and a little bored. I lay in bed early after dark, but the earth was shaking and the mountains were shaking outside. Of course I couldn’t sleep, so I simply wrote a song on my phone. :
Youyou is excited, Usagi is aggressive.
In a place where mountains and seas are overwhelmed, the fairyland becomes a prison.
Outside the cage, the wind and rain are raging, and it is suspected to be in hell.
There are guests in the cage, and the feeling of foreign land is also strong.
(Usagi—the name of this typhoon)
dinner (this photo was developed at the request of the landlord, and sent to her together with the group photo taken when we broke up the next day)
Because of the power outage, we cannot Eat dinner without a flashlight. The young girl with a typical Southeast Asian face in the middle of the picture is named Axiang. At first I thought she was the daughter of the landlord, but later I found out that she was a helper hired from the village. She was responsible for receiving customers, room management, cooking, etc. Housework, but the wages are not high, it seems that this is indeed "the poorest place in Taiwan".
Sitting around and eating like this, don't you worry about hygiene? In fact, I don't have to worry at all, because the hygiene standards of these elderly people are higher than mine, and they are more particular. Chopsticks or tongs.
