"'Afraid windows will break': Typhoon Mangkhut arrives as strong winds, heavy rain lash Hong Kong
HONG KONG: Typhoon Mangkhut hurtled towards Hong Kong on Sunday (Sep 16), lashing its coastline and sending skyscrapers swaying, after killing more than 50 in the Philippines and ripping a swathe of destruction through its agricultural heartland.
The massive storm, considered the world's biggest this year, has already left large expanses of the Philippines' Luzon island underwater as its fierce winds ripped trees from the ground and rains unleashed dozens of landslides.
In Hong Kong, weather authorities issued the maximum alert for the storm, which rocked the city with fierce gusts that have reportedly reached 232 kilometres per hour.
As the storm tore past south of Hong Kong, trees were snapped in half and roads blocked, while windows and walls in tower blocks and skyscrapers were smashed.
"We're just afraid the window will break in any minute. We keep receiving lots of video from WhatsApp (showing) flooding, flying rubbish bin. Some colleagues' homes have lost electricity already; we have readied torch and candle by our side," Ms Phoebe Wong, 47, a field sales supervisor at Procter & Gamble, told Channel NewsAsia.
The typhoon has been gaining in strength over the South China Sea after tearing through the Philippines.
Mangkhut, the Thai name for Southeast Asia's mangosteen fruit, was expected to skirt 100km south of Hong Kong and veer west towards the coast of China's Guangdong province, and the gaming centre of Macau later in the day."
I got back fr Hkg a day earlier after learning that Mangkhut will pass it on Sunday yesterday. I m glad I did.
In time like this, men realised, instinctively or made, that Nature is all powerful! Much more powerful than the technologies men have created.
Glad that some of my friends r aOK though it was very scary to watch more than 10 very short clips of smashed windows; crumbling tower crane; flooded lobbies; swaying high rise buildings; "crazy death wished" persons being almost blown away by the wind; etc.
Than again, 10 clips in a city of multiple millions! So, maybe it was not that bad.
In the meantime, a lady passenger suffered a deep cut on her shin during lunch time using the escalator in a MRT Station!! Her hubby who was with her said they could not imagine what kind of damages it could inflict on a child!!
No Mangkhut type causes. So, we should handle routine maintenance!
Blessed the folks in Southern China where Mangkhut roams!!
HONG KONG: Typhoon Mangkhut hurtled towards Hong Kong on Sunday (Sep 16), lashing its coastline and sending skyscrapers swaying, after killing more than 50 in the Philippines and ripping a swathe of destruction through its agricultural heartland.
The massive storm, considered the world's biggest this year, has already left large expanses of the Philippines' Luzon island underwater as its fierce winds ripped trees from the ground and rains unleashed dozens of landslides.
In Hong Kong, weather authorities issued the maximum alert for the storm, which rocked the city with fierce gusts that have reportedly reached 232 kilometres per hour.
As the storm tore past south of Hong Kong, trees were snapped in half and roads blocked, while windows and walls in tower blocks and skyscrapers were smashed.
"We're just afraid the window will break in any minute. We keep receiving lots of video from WhatsApp (showing) flooding, flying rubbish bin. Some colleagues' homes have lost electricity already; we have readied torch and candle by our side," Ms Phoebe Wong, 47, a field sales supervisor at Procter & Gamble, told Channel NewsAsia.
The typhoon has been gaining in strength over the South China Sea after tearing through the Philippines.
Mangkhut, the Thai name for Southeast Asia's mangosteen fruit, was expected to skirt 100km south of Hong Kong and veer west towards the coast of China's Guangdong province, and the gaming centre of Macau later in the day."
I got back fr Hkg a day earlier after learning that Mangkhut will pass it on Sunday yesterday. I m glad I did.
In time like this, men realised, instinctively or made, that Nature is all powerful! Much more powerful than the technologies men have created.
Glad that some of my friends r aOK though it was very scary to watch more than 10 very short clips of smashed windows; crumbling tower crane; flooded lobbies; swaying high rise buildings; "crazy death wished" persons being almost blown away by the wind; etc.
Than again, 10 clips in a city of multiple millions! So, maybe it was not that bad.
In the meantime, a lady passenger suffered a deep cut on her shin during lunch time using the escalator in a MRT Station!! Her hubby who was with her said they could not imagine what kind of damages it could inflict on a child!!
No Mangkhut type causes. So, we should handle routine maintenance!
Blessed the folks in Southern China where Mangkhut roams!!
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