Nobody told ME!
It rained like mad all day today, and I didn’t know why until I had dinner with my co-worker Teya, whose son I was watching this afternoon. We’re in the midst of a TYPHOON! I had no idea one was coming, despite having watched CCTV-9 news and listening to CRI Radio news pretty faithfully. CCTV-9 news is always boring crap about some government official visiting some country you’ve never heard of, or some international pork pricing conference, but it never tells you anything useful, like that a typhoon is heading to your town (or maybe it is so boring that by the time they mention that, you’ve changed to another channel). Looking at Shanghaiist tonight, I found that 200,000 people in the city have actually been evacuated. We don’t even get the day off work, though.