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Holly 韓荷麗 🇺🇸🇹🇼
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@taispy on the other place. Marylander. 19 years in Taipei, now in Taitung. Permanent resident of #Taiwan.

Reader. 📖 Writer. ✏️ Translator. 🉑Language learner. 🇫🇷 Recovering startup community leader. 🙃 Neurodiverse 🧠
Keep getting these typhoon wind warnings. Finally went to the website explaining the scale — we’re at level 14, which sounds about right based on the racket that wind outside is making. Stuff strewn all over the street outside my house already.
#typhoonpodul #taitung
August 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Turns out this warning was warranted. The rain is alright but the wind out there is fierce right now. Sounds like a plane taking off over and over. Strongest typhoon I’ve experienced in some years. Power is flickering.
First time seeing this particular warning during a typhoon. This one is shaping up to be a biggie.
#typhoonpodul #taitung
August 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Reposted by Holly 韓荷麗 🇺🇸🇹🇼
My storm-chasing friends have a live feed from SE Taiwan right now of the landfall of typhoon #11

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFV2...
Typhoon Podul LIVE Storm Chaser Coverage In Taiwan
YouTube video by Earth Uncut TV
www.youtube.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The typhoon day started off with a surprise in my kitchen! 🐍

Thank goodness for a good landlord who has a snake guy on speed dial. Didn’t like the part where I had to help lift the furniture to get the rest of it loose, but thankful it’s gone now. *shudder*
August 13, 2025 at 1:13 AM
First time seeing this particular warning during a typhoon. This one is shaping up to be a biggie.
#typhoonpodul #taitung
August 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Live stream from Taitung, Taiwan — no obvious tsunami waves so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqS_...
【4K】台東杉原灣即時影像 Taitung Shanyuan Bay Live Camera
YouTube video by Amazing Taitung 台東就醬玩
www.youtube.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Reposted by Holly 韓荷麗 🇺🇸🇹🇼
Crossposted from TVBS on Threads: the scene in Hualien, Taiwan, as the tsunami from the M8.8 earthquake in Kamchatka arrives.
July 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Reposted by Holly 韓荷麗 🇺🇸🇹🇼
Tsunami warning for Taiwan:
Less than 30cm for northern Taiwan
30cm to 1 meter for southern Taiwan
July 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Reposted by Holly 韓荷麗 🇺🇸🇹🇼
Tsunami estimated to arrive at about 12:40 in Hokkaido (Sapporo). 1pm in Niigata. Just before 2pm in Okinawa (Naha I guess).

Taiwan: 1:19pm local time in Hualien, 1:24 in Taitung, 1:52pm in Keelung, 2:06pm in Kaohsiung.

tsunami.gov/events/PHEB/...

🧪⚒️⚛️
tsunami.gov
July 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A little rattle down here in Taitung. First time getting the mobile earthquake alert in a couple of months. Could tell it was local before the data was published because there wasn’t a peep on my timeline about it. XD
March 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Reposted by Holly 韓荷麗 🇺🇸🇹🇼
2/13(四)19:00在台東晃晃書店見!

情人節前夕,晃晃會有一場特別的講座,是來自荷蘭的譯者 Annelous Stiggelbout(施露)要來分享三毛的故事,《撒哈拉的故事》的荷蘭文本《Berichten uit de Sahara》是她的譯作之一。
主題:翻譯三毛 Translating Sanmao
地點:晃晃書店
#台東 #台灣

facebook.com/events/s/%E8...
【講座】0213 翻譯三毛 Translating Sanmao|講者:荷蘭譯者Annelous Stiggelbout(施露)
Event in Taitung City, Taiwan by 晃晃二手書店 on Thursday, February 13 2025
facebook.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Reposted by Holly 韓荷麗 🇺🇸🇹🇼
President Donald Trump has paused imposing tariffs on small-value packages arriving from #China, apparently to give federal agencies time to sort out how to process millions of such shipments that have come through the U.S. border every day without paying taxes.

apnews.com/article/tari...
Trump pauses tariffs on millions of low-value packages from China
President Donald Trump has paused the imposition of tariffs on small-value packages arriving from China.
apnews.com
February 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Reposted by Holly 韓荷麗 🇺🇸🇹🇼
I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
February 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
TIL: I thought I spotted an anachronism in a novel just now, but it turns out CDs and CD players have been around a good decade longer than I thought. 🤯

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact...
Compact disc - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 3, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Am really looking forward to the end of those fireworks that sound like rifle shots after this weekend. 😫
February 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Reposted by Holly 韓荷麗 🇺🇸🇹🇼
Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.
January 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Reposted by Holly 韓荷麗 🇺🇸🇹🇼
F*ck @usatoday.com for amplifying bigoted transphobic rhetoric...
Here’s something easy you can do today. Block USA Today on Blue Sky.

If thousands of us can do it, we can have an immediate impact on their reach on social media.
January 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Felt that HUGE in Taitung!
January 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Was wondering why my neighbors on both sides seem so much louder today than usual.

Just realized it’s bc this is my first Lunar New Year in Taiwan living in a house on a residential street in Taitung instead of an apartment in Taipei. My Taipei place always got quieter at LNY with ppl traveling!
January 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
One more little earthquake in Taitung. Seems like are affected more by the Tainan/Chiayi fault than the Hualien one.
January 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I briefly convinced myself that I had imagined that earthquake because 1) I rarely feel earthquakes in Taitung and 2) nobody I follow posted about it. 😅 #vindication
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM