Well, Kompasu has come and gone. Yeosu got between 4 and 5 inches of rain, and I haven’t seen any wind damage, so we got out of it relatively unscathed. Much of the rain seemed to come down early this morning, between 5 and 5:30, right after I woke up. I mean it REALLY poured with an intensity that we certainly didn’t see in TS Dianmu.
In Seoul, parts of the massive subway system were shut down, power was lost in some areas, flights were canceled and 3 people were killed, according to various reports by The Chosun Ilbo, Bloomberg News and The BBC.
Now, however, another storm is brewing just over the horizon. Tropical Depression 10 is forming in nearly the same area of the Pacific where Kompasu was born. Weather Underground shows the depression gradually gaining strength until it hits the southeast coast of Korea (that’s us, more or less–we’re south central) as a category 2 typhoon next Monday evening. It’s still very early in the game, so it could hit anywhere or be swept out to sea before it reaches us. Stay tuned.
