Korea and Daegu are being hit by yet another typhoon. This is different from last years typhoon season where Daegu was hardly touched and Seoul got pounded for three months straight. A week and a half ago was Typhoon Bolavan and today it was the turn of Typhoon Sanba

Typhoon Bolavan was a non event in Daegu although students were told they can come in late at 10am. People in the path of the typhoon in other parts of Korea had offices and schools closed completely. 

The day Bolaven hit it was just heavy drizzle and winds that lasted for maybe 20 mins. Daegu wasnt in the path so nothing severe was expected. 

This time Sanba was expected to pass directly over Daegu on Monday. Word broke late Sunday nite that students would have classes cancelled but that teachers would still have to come in. This seemed strange as to why we would have to travel and sit in an empty school all day.

All day Sunday it rained but this wasnt actually the epicentre of the typhoon which was due to hit Monday afternoon. Monday going to school it was like a public holiday as the streets were mostly deserted of traffic or normal activity. 

A lone student was walking to school in the rain so I had to tell him to go home as classes had been cancelled. This was my first time in my 2+ years here that school has been closed due to bad weather. We may have to do a 'make up' day during winter break but I'll just be playing games instead of teaching a new lesson then

I only live a six minute walk away but I feel bad for the teachers that had to drive to come here. One teacher has to drive almost an hour, and another one is about seven months pregnant. Back home when we had weather emergency days we operated on 'skeleton staff' and others were allowed to use a flex day or vacation day for the time off. Here there is no such luxury. 

I sympathize with the Korean teachers who had to travel by bus or car in such bad weather to get here. I also figured the cafeteria would be closed with no students so I brought lunch.

Late in the morning an announcement was made that there was no lunch. The teachers gathered to choose what lunch to order in. Now several poor motorcycle delivery drivers have to come in the pouring rain to deliver lunch to different groups of teachers.  

I was hoping it wouldnt be sticky all day which it wasnt. However the constant hammering sound of the rain became annoying so I had to close the windows. 









By afternoon the wind picked up a bit but the rain stopped. A photo surfaced of downtown with warnings the river is quite high but that no bridges had been closed.



The river in my neighbourhood was also much higher than it usually is.













Going home it seemed like a ghost town with most places deserted, although I've seen much worse rainfalls and wind back home and when I was caught in a much stronger typhoon in Hong Kong. By early evening the sky was blue and you could see the sunset.