The flood!!!

A rainy day in Seoul.

We had this retreat today at this restaurant on the river. I don't know why we left our nice campus to go sit in tables on the other side of the city- but that's what was planned.

Now I live on the northside of the river and the restaurant was just over the bridge on the left side- not that bad, right?! Wrong. It took us 45min-1hr to get there!!! That's how insane the traffic gets here in the big city.

So we get there. It's raining but not too bad and we all walk over this bridge to get onto the restaurant on the river.

2 hrs later we get a break and we notice that the river has started to rise a bit...

1 hr after that we notice that not only has the river now risen even more but that the current is moving insanely fast...

Pretty much the Han River has flooded to the point where the restaurant had to build a makeshift bridge for ppl to get over.

Above & Below: notice how the railing is now below the water compared to the last pic?!

Below: These ropes below had been 4 feet above the water level...

Dr. Engstrom (the Headmaster) makes the call to "Get off the floating restaurant and go back to our campus on the hill"..

We all trudge our way across the moving makeshift bridge (made of I don't even know what)

and clammer onto the buses and hurry on home.

So we realize "Oh! That's right! There was just a typhoon that was in Taiwan that wiped out whole buildings.. then it went to China and this is clearly the aftermath."

The Han River was flooded so high and so quickly that a bridge saw on the way there- wasn't there on the way home!!

Good thing we live on a hill.