Exploring Taiwan in five short months: Typhoon Dujuan info + update

It's Monday night, the 28th of September and the typhoon Dujuan is roaming through Taiwan. With the max wind speed of 51m/s and gusts reaching even 63m/s, it is rather windy outside. In the anticipation of the typhoon it's been raining now for two days, though the rain is very peculiar in that I wouldn't call it rain at all but rather mist from a spray bottle or something like that, because it doesn't actually drench you. The wind has been increasing steadily as the typhoon draws nearer. The afternoon visit to 7/11 (our nearest convenient store) proved that the newly bought umbrella is totally useless in this wind, hence, I'm in the market for a new umbrella now...
Apparently the typhoon made land contact today at around 18pm in the eastern parts, so we'll be expecting it to pass us during the night / early morning. Luckily my morning class was cancelled. :) So far I've no clear idea of the conditions outside, but I heard that a lot of trees have already fallen, as well as, an account of one girl who witnessed a broken brick wall near the city centre. However, the dorm seems safe enough especially since we're on the second floor so the fear of flooding is rather low. But we'll be staying safe and I'll post some more news after the "storm" has passed.

Here's some links for more news:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/27/weather/typhoon-dujuan/
http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V7e/prevent/typhoon/ty.htm

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Let's do some updating.
Yes, yes we're still alive & well! The night passed quite calmly actually, meaning that I slept like a log. All school and work were cancelled in almost all of Taiwan for Tuesday, which meant a free day for us! The afternoon stroll around the campus and in the nearby park (in the 18 peak mountain) brought us back to reality, however. The streets were covered in leaves and branches, there were some fallen trees here & there and apparently in the other campus some buildings had taken hits to the windows. Therefore we concluded that the "free" day wasn't so much for the fear of the typhoon but for the clearance of the debris afterwards. Quite clever actually.
So, all in all, we survived our first ever typhoon and here's some lame aftermath pics. Next time let's write about something a little bit more positive, shall we.