Last summer, we arrived in Okinawa in late July. A few weeks into our time here, we experienced our first typhoon. We would go on to experience 3 more typhoons all before the end of September. This year was quite different! Typhoon season in Okinawa officially runs from June 1 to November 30. We finally got out first typhoon of the season on Saturday, October 5th. I felt better this year knowing what we were in for and even excited to have our first typhoon hit the island! This island was built to withstand the fierce winds and rain that typhoons bring so they don't even worry us at all! Typhoon Fitow had us locked up in our house all day Saturday. We don't have cable, so we rely on Netflix for our main source of entertainment. Well with everyone and their brother using the internet, Netflix wasn't working out too well for us. It would have to buffer every like 3 minutes. We gave up on that pretty quickly. We started watching DVDs that we own. I'm not a big fan of watching movies that I have already seen, so it got boring pretty quickly! We had gone to the video store to rent some movies before the storm hit but they were sold out of all the good ones, of course! Typhoon Fitow didn't hit us very hard, it just brought a lot of rain. The winds weren't even that strong at our house. There was a flattened cardboard box that had blown into our yard before the storm hit, and it was still there afterward. Considering one of the typhoons last year was flipping cars over, this one was pretty weak!
Since the storm had passed by the time we woke up on Sunday morning, we were able to leave the house. After one day of staying inside, we already had cabin fever! I think the worst was knowing they were reporting another typhoon was approaching the island and predicted to hit us on Monday afternoon. The first thing we did was go to the commissary to get some extra groceries. Of course everyone and their brother had the same idea. One must avoid the commissary at all costs before and after typhoons, it's always a mad house! We had enough food to last us through Monday, but you never know with these typhoons how long you'll be stuck inside! We got in and out of there with the essentials pretty quickly. We spent the day out of the house as much as we could since we knew we'd be cooped up inside the following day.
By Sunday night, we were already in
TCCOR 2 again, which means
destructive winds of 50 knots or greater are anticipated within 24 hours. Typhoon Danas was quickly approaching Okinawa! The different sites I follow on Facebook were all reporting that Danas was going to be more of a direct hit than the last typhoon and some even calling it a Super or Severe Typhoon. Monday morning we were in TCCOR 1 and still able to be out and about. We took Myah for a walk to try to get as much crap out of her as we could so she didn't have to go out during the "Super Typhoon". By 11:00AM we were in TCCOR 1C which means you have to stay in your house because the storm is here. What a joke! It barely rained today and I don't think our trees barely moved. It was weaker than Fitow in my opinion. I waited all day to see this typhoon and nothing even happened. It was another boring day at home but at least this typhoon hit on Monday so we didn't have to go to work :) That's always a plus! We went into TCCOR Storm Watch about 7:00PM and shortly after Chad got called into work. He only has to work a few hours and then he'll have all day tomorrow off. So while he's gone, I'm sitting here bored out of my mind and that's why I'm updating my blog for once.
So that was our exciting long weekend full of typhoons. I didn't even take any pictures or videos of the storms, that's how unexciting they were. We didn't have Myah last year during any of the typhoons so I was kind of wondering how she would act during one. She acted like she didn't even know anything was happening and she kept wanting to go outside like she normally does. She didn't even care that it was raining and windy during the first typhoon. She had to do her business and that's all that mattered to her. I think she even wanted us to take her on a walk during it! lol
Speaking of Myah... she has had a case of ringworm since June. We've been to vet just about a dozen times now and it's still not going away. It's not getting any worse, but not getting any better! She's been on fungal meds and antibiotics for months now. This last visit, they finally gave us this shampoo to bathe her with 2-3 times a week. The kicker is we have to keep the shampoo on her for 10 minutes. Let me tell you how fun that is! I just hope it clears it up and I was finally happy the vet wanted to try something different. I just want it to go away!
On a good note... 71 days until we're America bound! We are so excited!!! :)
