typhoon damage

Posted by Ryan (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) on 22 August 2009 in Landscape & Rural.

Christine and I both went out to do some cleaning up of typhoon damage. It's been two weeks and there is still so much work to be done. Chris went to a tiny village and helped muck out houses and clean up yards with a big group involved with a church. I didn't go very far out of town, but went with the hiking group who teamed up with the Hash House Harriers, a local running group. We got a total of six people, including the organizers and their spouses. Basically, it was them and me.

We mucked out a dog shelter, which some may deem unneeded (it isn't, damage is damage) until it's pointed out that these shelters are right along the river that feeds the water supply to Kaohsiung. The water supply cannot be replenished until the river can be determined to be clean, and that cannot be done until animals aren't freely running around the river. That's why our water supply was down to 16 cm earlier this week.

Anyway, this is a bit of the record of the damage done to the bananas. Banana trees hate excessive water. Hate to the point of dying. Bananas are going to be expensive this fall.

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