Today's the day!

Our apartment's view!

So, today is the day of the typhoon.  It should be here sometime this afternoon or evening.

It's already started raining, but it is not so bad.  We already stocked up on a few more groceries than normal, in case we can't go outside for a couple days, and we bought battery powered lights in case of a black-out...and we already had plenty of candles.  Here are some 'before' photos of my view.  I hope to take 'during' and 'after', though I would expect that 'after' will look only slightly different, and the 'during' will be difficult to see... but I'll try!

We closed the gate in order to keep
flying debris out of our apartment!

Yesterday they posted a T1, and today we are at a T3.  A T8 will be posted later.  You can find the meanings of the T signals here. I know, it's Wikipedia, but it's correct this time.  We use the same system as Hong Kong.  I personally expect it to go up to at T10, but I am not the expert...we'll see.

Thankfully, even though it's a super typhoon (category 5 hurricane), it's lessened in intensity a little.  It's now classified as a severe typhoon instead.

If you want to follow Typhoon Usagi (especially if I lose internet to share updates with you), then you can visit Hong Kong's website or Macau's website...the Hong Kong one is more detailed, but the Macau one is the one I use more often because, well, I live in Macau ;)