Typhoon Kalmaegi

As much as I love it here, there are many things I'm not used to. One of those things are typhoons since we had nothing like them in Chicago.

First Typhoon Fengshen. Now Typhoon Kalmaegi. And unlike Fengshen, which missed Taiwan when it took a detour from The Philippines to Hong Kong, Kalmaegi hit Taiwan.

The good news is it didn't hit Taipei and the city is safe and sound. The bad news is this thing was considered a small typhoon and it still killed at least 20 people.

I find this difficult to grasp as most hurricanes that hit the States, as terrible as they are, usually just cause a lot of property damage (Katrina being an obvious exception). Here, even in a smaller one, its very likely that people will lose their lives as well.

I've always known this to be the case in many parts of the world. Its just an eye opener now that I call one of those parts of the world "home."