It Never Lives Up to the Hype

You'll all be glad to know that I am quite safe and sound, due mostly to the fact that Melor ended up amounting to little more than a glorified and slightly breezy rainstorm. Now, if I hadn't gone and dropped tons of money on setting up an emergency kit, the gods would no doubt have laughed in my face and proceeded to blow my roof off. That said, my first typhoon "experience" turned out to be dramatically less than noteworthy. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming, which usually consists of me sitting at a school desk doing nothing for approximately six hours a day.