I would get inland,
There's not much inland. If we walk from our side of the island (beach front, we see the sunrise) to the other side of the island (beach front, they see the sunset) it only takes 10 minutes.
We're expecting no utilities for a few days after it hits.
Evidently the winds are as strong as they get. If we stay in our place, there is a bathroom in the middle of the apartment which is surrounded by the rest of the apartment - in other words, it has no outside wind exposure. So I figure in the worst case scenario where the wind damages the windows, we can at least huddle in that bathroom for the day and wait for the storm to pass. The building is concrete, the windows are the laminated extra strong stuff designed for typhoons, but who knows if that's enough?
But I wonder what will happen with water with this type of storm, on the TV they're saying swells are 4-5 meters high. That's big, but that doesn't get you up to the third floor. We've had some "normal" typhoons pass through, and the waves haven't even made it up to the pool. Can this storm actually produce a swell that's going to flow over the 1st and 2nd floor and get up to the 3rd floor? If so, that's tsunami level stuff, and thousands are going to die,
It's supposed to hit us in Boracay about 8pm tomorrow (it's midnight now). We're thinking we may rent a hotel room up on the hill tomorrow, and move up there for the evening. The wind danger doesn't freak me out all that much, and I can't imagine the water danger getting up 3 floors, and it's a strong concrete building, but if things are going to get really really bad, by the time we find that out we'll be unable to move.
I wish the jerks on CNN would stop saying "they've never seen anything like this!!" and "it's the biggest super typhoon on the planet this year"!! It's not helping us sleep! |
