Typhoon tea

Plans to go abirding have been derailed by the latest typhoon - Typhoon Washout. One of the compensations is to see how the kites cascade and swirl in the wind, like some form of corkscrew roller coaster. Anybody who believes they don't do this for the sheer hell of it should just watch a while and be converted. We had a noisy and sleepless night as the wind crashed against our windows and the rain rattled down, with the occasional lightning but no thunder as I could tell. Our house faces NNE and the typhoons tend to come from the NE so we get pretty much the full brunt.

These were the skies this afternoon as we went down to T3. Shortly afterwards the heavens opened again but briefly. I tried one as taken and one in B&W, courtesy of photoshop.