Post Typhoon Skies

The typhoon blew over without any damage really, branches and stuff like normal fell down, but nothing major here where we live. Something that is pretty awesome is the skies after a typhoon. It's always more beautiful than ever. Toward sunset it's almost totally purple and I got a few pictures of the sky.

Last Typhoon Of 2016

I was just saying the other day that luckily Chris wasn't gone over typhoon season! It would have been impossible to take down our awning by myself. We have to take that down then, otherwise it would tear apart from the strong winds. It cost us a lot of money to get that shade, and I certainly wouldn't want it to break.

Anyway, I was trying to look up when we had the last typhoon, and found these pictures. Chris was at work ofcourse, and we were about to go into stage TCCOR-1 which means that you are more or less grounded and the typhoon is about to hit. The winds were pretty strong, but the rain had yet not started, so I decided to get the kids out of the house to run off some energy before being closed up inside for maybe a day or two, depending on how long the typhoon would go on for.

Took them to our climbing park here on our base, awesome park and the kids had some much needed time outside before it started to rain!

The sky was here not yet too dark, but it did change very soon. After just about an hour after this, it was dark outside and the rain started and the typhoon was coming in strong. We had really bad winds and rain over night, but luckily no power outages and that was all we needed. Still able to make dinner, watch movies and wait it out!!

Beach Time

Due to the typhoons warnings and stormy weather, we haven't been to the  beach for awhile. We have had a very slow typhoon season here in Okinawa, last summer we had several typhoons, but this season they have all passed us. Lucky for us, not so lucky for poor Taiwan and coast of China that has been slammed lately, with the last couple of typhoons bashing in on them.

We were thinking the whole weekend that we would see more of tyhoon Malakas, that has been back and forth in the radar and making it very unclear if it was supposed to hit Okinawa or not. As far as the predictions were, we weren't going to have school for the kids today on September 19, as it would be the strongest winds and rain coming over us then. During the weekend, we went back to Storm watch meaning that the typhoon more or less have missed us again. We do see some winds and it's dangerous to be close to the coast line as the waves are strong and easily can swipe you out to sea. I saw a videoclip from someone that was out walking his dogs by the seawall, and he was filming waves that were reaching higher than 10 meter reaching in and over the seawall and over to the streets! So it will be no beachtime for us the next couple of days that's for sure!

But, as I haven't shared any beach pictures lately, and I've been too busy this weekend with everything going on to go through my pictures from school etc, so I'm posting these from August, when the sun was shining and no dangerous waves were in sight!

Post Typhoon Sunsets

Everywhere on the different pages from Okinawa, the sunset pictures came rolling in from people here on the island, to show how beautiful they had captured the magic sunset after the Typhoon. I still have to make it to the west coast for these sunsets, as we live on the other side of the island, I have no pictures that I took to show you, but the ones below were shared on a Facebook page about Okinawa Typhoons that Sunday night, after we came back from our beach treasure hunting. Each picture have the photo cred posted below them. 

Enjoy and admire the magic of the same Okinawa sunset from different views all over the west coast:

 Photo cred: Aileen Alisha Beard 

Photo cred: Vanessa Urea

Photo cred: Vanessa Urea

Photo cred: Vanessa Urea

Photo cred: Vanessa Urea 

Photo cred: Katie Norton Frost

Typhoon Treats..

So it's been a week since this, but as I have already written the posts, but haven't found the time to post them, here is the rest of our typhoon weekend.

Saturday morning and most of the day went by and the storm just didn't want to pick up speed enough to go into TCCOR 1 Emergency, it stayed in TCCOR 1 Caution for the whole time. So frustrating, as Chris has to be at work, and we were all bound to the house.

After lunch, Chris was able to come and pick us up really quick, and I drove him back to work, and we could go on to take care of some grocery shopping, and because daddy was just as upset about the ruined weekend as the kids, he told them that they could pick something out at the store.

They were happy to pick some new toys, and after grocery shopping, we did get into a bit of a rainstorm around 3pm, thinking that it would be going into Emergency around that time after all, so we were happy to be back home.

 Posing for daddy sending him the pictures of what they picked out.

Iron Man gloves

 Isabella did such a great job coloring in her new purse.

After checking if Cassie wanted to be picked up, which she choose not to, as they had already planned for her to stay another night, and the girls had so much fun, I was getting dinner ready, finally catching up with my sweet friend back home in Sweden, and then the text came - tell Iron Man and my little girl to come and pick me up.

..and so they did, a bit earlier as expected, as the typhoon died down faster than planned, not even reaching Emergency this time. It just hung around all day to destroy the weekend plans.