“Nuri Whips City”

We survived the night along with everyone else in Hong Kong except an idiot who went swimming in the middle of it all. Forty nine people were injured in the 131 km winds however damage to the city was minimal compared to the damage big storms have on Sydney or Melbourne. 400 flights were canceled yesterday, so it will take a while for the airlines to catch up. The T10 signal was never reached but it was the fist time a T9 had been hoisted in five years and only the 24th time since 1946, so the Olympics here in Hong Kong were extremely lucky. Today we are back to a T3 but the forecast is “for heavy rain with squalls, gale to storm force cyclonic winds, occasionally hurricane winds over off shore waters”. So we think our planned hour boat ride to Macau is off!

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