Yesterday I walked off to work in the middle of a rain storm. Today is a typhoon, but yesterday was just the front getting pushed along, and it was a huge amount of water that fell. I sat at home waiting for rain to slow down, but it just got harder and harder. Luckily my umbrella and shoes held up until I got to the local train station. <\/p>\n
Unfortunately my luck didn’t last once I arrived at Hyogo station. There was even more rain here, so I went over to the taxi line to catch a ride – but there were about 60 people waiting for a taxi. So I figured I had to forge through the weather. Bad idea. <\/p>\n
About halfway to work the rain penetrated my shoes and I could start to feel moisture between my toes. Just before arriving at the office it started raining inside<\/em> my umbrella. When I arrived inside my office I had to walk past the concerned receptionist, as my shoes slurped on my feet with every step. How classy!<\/p>\n Up in my office I dumped out the water from my shoes into the garbage can – about 100 mL each. Then I squeezed out my socks and went around barefoot for an hour until my classes started. Most of my students showed up without socks – I guess I wasn’t the only one – but by the time the day ended my socks and shoes were dry enough to wear, although they were still a bit moist. <\/p>\n Today there was a typhoon warning, so I’ll try this all again with a different pair of shoes and an extra pair of socks. Kuniko is giving me a ride to Hyogo, so maybe that will help a bit. Wet and wild around here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday I walked off to work in the middle of a rain storm. Today is a typhoon, but yesterday was just the front getting pushed along, and it was a huge amount of water that fell. I sat at home waiting for rain to slow down, but it just got harder and harder. Luckily my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-yz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}