Van vs Typhoon

 So two of our cars sat out the typhoon in the driveway and had zero damage.  They were not even dirty.  The kids scoffed at the long lines at the car wash and I confess, I wondered why they were so eager to wash their cars.

Then I picked up the van.  The van had been sitting in the Auto Car Center's parking lot for a week, and spent Typhoon Trami there as well.  I was annoyed to see that it had a fresh dent and had lost a rain guard over the driver's side window. I would not have been so irritated if that had happened while it was at home, but it was the insult of it being at the Auto shop and getting damaged that irked me.

The dent doesn't look awful here.  The crack isn the paint is the worst part, because it will rust.  

And it doesn't look awful, but the window looks naked without the plastic piece over it. 

Now, Typhoon Trami left on Sunday.  On Wednesday Typhoon Kong-Ray moved in.  

We were carefully following the typhoon projections to see if we had school or not.  The typhoon had been a Cat 4, but was down to a Cat 1 by the time it sideswiped us.

We had no school on Thursday and the worst of it hit Thursday night.  No school on Friday, although everything opened up around 2pm. The typhoon was not bad at all.  Barely enough wind to qualify as a Typhoon at all and it disintegrated into a tropical storm as it left. Zero damage.  So it was a great typhoon!