Still here

Typhoon 24, Trami, passed over us and it was pretty intense. I had all the window and door shutters drawn in the evening before the winds got too intense, and locked in the chickens in their coop and closed their little door. From around 10:30 it started sounding pretty bad out there with the wind intensity at its peak maybe around 2 in the morning and the house shaking.
I could only imagine what was going on outside in the garden...
When we woke up it was still pretty windy but nowhere near the 35-40 m/s winds of the night. Removing the shutters and opening the window, at first glance I was glad the garden was still there. Looking closer there were bits and pieces broken here and there but luckily nothing major. The garden is situated partially in a good area, if winds are coming from north, they are weakened a bit by the orchard in the north and the house. If the winds are from south, as was the case this time, the long slope on the south on high ground protects the garden a little.
Still...

The path tarp is torn up by the wind. Pinned it down again.

A couple of peppers and eggplants were pulled out with their roots, so I put them back into ground and secured them again to their stakes. They are pretty hardy and will recover.

Not so huge damage that it sounded like during the night.

The chicken coop was still standing too. Not bad for a first time carpenter.
A large branch of the hanamizu tree had broken off and fallen right over the peanuts bed. Plus the string beans stake had tipped over. Just removed both, and everything looked much tidier.

The strawberries are still attached to the soil

The saplings are all fine still. Only the passion fruits took a real beating and all the flowers which I had pollinated so nicely had blown away. But except a few broken/twisted branches all three passion fruit plants are still there and they still reach up to the balcony. I guess thanks to my strong rope support.

Zoom in and you can see the resident praying mantis

Jack (The praying mantis who lives in the tomato/passion mess) looked a bit surprised but still there. Later that day I found him taking a ride up the passion fruit on the back of a gray, much larger mantis (Maybe on their way to honey moon?). If they were going to mate up there.... well congratulations, and it was nice knowing you Jack. R.I.P.

I had just thinned out the broccoli a couple days earlier

The broccoli tunnel had opened up in one end, and the wind had thinned out the seedlings further by breaking them. If I knew I would have not thinned them out before. Almost all ripe tomatoes had also blown off and were scattered all over the garden. The tomato plants themselves were in pretty bad shape too. Let's see if they recover eventually. If not, not a huge loss anyway.

All the pea are lying down

The green pea seedlings are all still alive, but a bit messed about. I will give them a couple of days and then just keep the strong ones and stake them up.
All in all, the garden survived the typhoon in much better shape than I thought it would.  😅