User blog comment:Maki Kuronami/Typhoon Ruby: A potential hiatus/@comment-24891101-20141209015446

It looks like it's taking its sweet time, but at least casualties are low. Certainly a far cry from last year. Tracks I'm looking at has it sitting smack dab on top of Calapan. Seems like its expended its force by now.

And it's actually kinda odd, because I only recently figured out which name was which. Hagupit certainly sounded like a Tagalog word to my ear, as indeed it is. But no, PAGASA has to give it their own special name, which sounds like an Atlantic hurricane, instead of its perfectly serviceable, local name.

Where in the Philippines are you located, if you don't mind my asking? I'm presuming on Luzon, since Mindanao wasn't in the path, nor the Visayas, else you'd have been interrupted last year (while I was lurking).