Friday, July 23, 2010

Signal 3

The pictures were taken from Hong Kong's Excelsior Hotel overlooking
Victoria Harbour to Kowloon at 6am on July 24. We arrived the night
before during typhoon signal #3. This meant a tropical storm was
250KM away. Notice the cloud. One side happy and one side very
dark. Students going to morning classes were told to stay home.

Getting the back side of a storm is not funny. Even though the storm
did not hit us, but it caused sudden weather change: one minute it was
sunny, the next rain, the next major downpour. In the afternoon as
the storm moved further and further away, some outlying villages in
Hong Kong got flash flood. Some places got over 2 story high! In an
hour, one area got 110mm of rain.

Me? I left for Macau before noon. I expected a rough ride. And rough
it was. Next blog.

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