Bomb threat?

Okay so here's a strange thing. This afternoon at 2pm a HUGE siren went off all over Taipei. Everyone has to stay inside and not go out on the street for 30 minutes. There are cops all over the roads pulling over cars and making them wait on the side of the road and getting people to go inside. I doesn't matter where but you must be indoors. The siren was deafening. This is taken very seriously. But its all just for practice! Just in case someone, I wont say who "cough, CHINA, cough" wants to bomb us one day we are prepared on what to do. Run indoors, and stop your car in the middle of the street.

This is only the second time in my almost 3 years here, this has ever happened. Its so strange to get a knock of reality in this black hole of time called Taiwan. I mean the thought that the Taiwanese people have been going through these bomb practices for their whole lives, always preparing for the possibility, its crazy.

Another weird and wonderful thing in Taiwan. Even a mundane day has a spark of excitement...And a really loud siren!