Air raid drill

What can I tell today?. Well, this afternoon, between 14:30 and 15:00, there was an air raid drill on this side of Taiwan. At least, in Taipei, because I saw it. It's not really funny, if I think about it, specially coming from a continent with a penchant for dropping all kinds of stuff on the heads of people, but it must be an unpleasant sign of how things are. The funny thing is that when I heard the sirens, I realized that I had misunderstood the mail that I got yesterday or the day before. Is that why nobody came to my office for the weekly meeting?. I wouldn't be surprised, because I am always the last to know.

As soon as the sirens started, they stopped the traffic and told people to get into the nearest buildings. There were policemen riding scooters or bikes, goind around to make sure that there weren't any cars moving or any people walking around (knowing them, that's hard work, as I could observe). I could also see from the windows of my floor, how there wasn't anything moving in Roosevelt Rd, nor in any of the elevated lanes of the freeway that surround us. Even the bridge that crosses the river was completely empty. For half an hour.


It is weird to see such a big city so empty, as in a 70s disaster movie. All in all, disturbing.