Taiwan takes a moment to laugh at weird mailboxes after super typhoon

Over the weekend Taiwan was hit by a super typhoon, with seven people confirmed dead and at least 100 more still missing. 100-mile-per-hour winds whipped the tiny island before moving on to southeastern China, where another 14 people were killed.

Typhoon Souledor was classified as a super typhoon by the Hong Kong Observatory, the Guardian writes. It’s one of the worst storms the world has seen this year, first hitting the U.S. island of Saipan in the western Pacific Ocean about a week ago. You can see the force of the winds in this dash cam footage that caught the moment it touched down in Taiwan, via the BBC:

Amid the destruction though, some in the capital Taipei found a moment to have a laugh with these two post boxes outside a convenience store. They stayed planted to the ground through the chaos, but not without some wear:

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People are posting photos with the mailboxes all over Twitter and Instagram today using #郵筒 (which translates to #mailbox), a little relief from what will no doubt be a somber time for the nation while they take stock of the death and damage the storm has left behind.

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