Those of you who followed the stories of my family’s return to Southern Fujian earlier this year might have recognized some place names in recent “Typhoon Hits China” stories in the news.

Typhoon Kaemi hit land on July 25th in the Jinjiang region of Fujian Province, where my wife’s family resides and where we spent most of our extended trip to China in January, February and March.

The whole family back there is fine, I’m happy to report, and in fact my Mother-in-Law tells us that the worst of the typhoon took just an hour to pass over their area before heading further inland (where it wreaked comparatively more havoc, unfortunately).

In case you missed the news stories, here’s a brief round-up–check that first one if nothing else for pictures of soldiers doing some repair work (four pages, click to continue)–I think I know who might have helped call for their deployment to Weitou:

• Soldiers on the front war against typhoon


• China storm toll nears 500
  Chinese toll in tropical storm hits 612


• Typhoon weakens after landfall in China


• Typhoon Kaemi unleashes fury against Fujian


• China uses text messages to warn citizens of storms

P.S. The rest of the stories, photos, and movies from our trip to China this year will be coming up on this blog in Sept.-Dec. this year.