Interview request from BBC

When I checked my email just now I found an email titled “Interview request from BBC, TODAY”. It’s from a BBC journalist who wants to know the situation about the biggest typhoon in my hometown Shantou now. I have been receiving text messages from Shantou’s local network company about the latest update on this typhoon in my Chinese mobile, it sounds very serious. But because Maggie is the one in Shantou now, I emailed them her number and maybe they will call her later.

What surprised me was that they found my email from my other blog myshantou.net (intro). I read an article about how blogs gradually becoming the sources of traditional news agent, and now I indeed experienced. This happened to another famous Chinese blogger Wangjianshuo before, and I think one of the reasons his blog became popular was he kept blogging latest news in Shanghai when China was attacked by SARS in 2003. His blog was even quoted by some major media outside China.

Regarding the typhoon in Shantou now, I just called my family and they said it’s gone already, the weather is sunny. However it was indeed very strong a few hours ago and they could experience it’s the strongest one in recent years. Some old streets are flooded by water which up to knees, and my dad had to go to his company to make sure all products and signs were well protected from beening blew away. I wrote about typhoon before when I was in Shantou last summer. Since Shantou is a costal city, every year there are at least a few typhoons will hit the city in summer and badly influences agricultures and many aspects of life there. It’s only May now and already came just a big one, I am worrying about how many more are going to come in this summer. Global warming is scary, check out this video.

::: Update :::
Maggie wrote about this typhoon in myshantou.net already, here is the link.