Typhoon Songda

We got home from China on Thursday and then had to prepare for the Typhoon that was coming. The storm "hit" on Saturday evening around 10 pm. Joe and I were outside taking pictures around 8 pm. There was some strong gusts of wind but nothing too strong. But when it actually hit, that was a different story. Our area was on the edge of the eye of the Typhoon. We had sustained winds of 50 miles/hour or greater and around 92 miles/per hour gusts. OF course, I couldn't sleep. I went to check on our stuff outside so I went to the side door. When I opened it, you could hear a high pitched squeal and it sounded like a train was coming through or an airplane was coming too low. It was loud. I retreated to my concrete bunker and stayed there. The next morning, Joe and I were out from 7AM cleaning up. We then went to help some friends who had deployed spouses. All is back to normal around here, the trees just look like they got attacked up a chain saw. Just found out that the winds were 58mph sustained and 109 mph on Kadena (AF base 3 miles up the road) and 127 at Futenma (Marine Air station 2 miles in the other direction.)
All of our outdoor things secured!
Trying to show the wind gusts (this was around 8:00pm
The bushes and potted plant still intact

Plants in the front yard.
We have a trash can surrounding some trees in the back yard. You can't really tell but the trees were uprooted.
Our backyard
The side yard- this is what I was hearing the entire night (branches snapping)
Neighbors across the street.

May 1st

Where has the time gone? I can't believe it is already May. April came and went but we were busy. Joe came home the first week in April. Then the boys had spring break (which we went no where)then school started. Joe went back to work, I was subbing almost everyday or spending time at the school for PTO and the boys were back at soccer practice. Our time left here on this island is dwindling. We are still waiting on orders for our move but they should be coming soon. On May 22-26 we are going to China. I think the boys and I are going to be living off of rice but we will survive.







Joe did his first triathlon since he has been back. He came in 2nd overall and won his age group. It was a short tri- 300M swim, 3-4 mile bike and 1.5 mile run. Joe needed the run to be a little longer in order to catch the leader. @ more regular season games for Brody and one for Hunter. Hunter's league has a playoff so in 2 weeks the playoffs will start. both boys won this weekend. Hunter scored 3 and Brody didn't score but was throwing some elbows! Remember...it's not illegal unless you get caught and he didn't get caught. To give him credit, the other team was tall so I am sure he was getting hit in the head by there elbows so he was just returning the favor.