So it is now 9pm, about 20h after typhoon Fanapi landed on Xiamen. Despite going to bed around 3am last night (too excited to sleep), I woke up around 6 in the morning, partially because of the excitement, partially because of the noise of the wind outside....

It started raining pretty heavily. I put back inside all the clothes still hanging on the balcony, fearing the wind would blow them away or the rain get them soaked. Same goes for the 2 cardboard boxes I had spared from the recent moving. Left outside,...

And it's a big one. The biggest one landing on Fujian since the beginning of the year 2010. In average, Fujian faces 6 typhoons per year which mainly occur from July to September. Since I'm always travelling in China during that time, I hadn't had the...