The third typhoon in only 3 months has just crossed Hong Kong and according to Hong Kong observatory, then they expect about 8 typhoons this year, in other words we have five more to go, and as the season for tropical storms is May to October the last five should hit the next month and a half. Hopefully it will then always happen on working days as we then gets a day of to spend in the house. That was also what we did on Friday when tropical storm Nuri moved towards Hong Kong from the south east. As it came closer it was obvious that this time it would be a direct hit and the typhoon warning signal no. 9 was hoisted for the first time since 2003, so this time it could be really bad. From inside our house we followed the storm roaring around outside, blowing away everything was wasn't properly secured. Doors and windows was rattling, and the fans in the windows was turning the other way around. After hours of roaring, raining and rattling it suddenly went all quiet, not a wind and not a rain drop, just like a normal cloudy day. The eye of the storm was exactly above our city of Sai Kung. A couple of hours it was silent and then in the evening it came back from the opposite direction this time, as the back side of Nuri was passing in a north west direction.So we fell asleep with the sound of rattling windows and the howling wind around every corner.
The next morning Nuri had left and the sky was full of thousands of dragonflies buzzing around and every thing seemed normal expect the usual sticky humid hot air was replaced by a pleasant cooler and dry air, nearly like in europe in the summer. As we went for a morning run we saw the full extension of the damage the storm has left in our little community. It was nothing very big and bad to see -what we know of right now- just some dislocated boats, turned over trees and branches and leafs everywhere on the ground. So now again the people who clean up the city and the street will have a lot of work to do for some time, and when the next storm has past, they can start all over again.
The city workers on their never ending task of cleaning our beloved stadium after typhoons.
The third typhoon in only 3 months has just crossed Hong Kong and according to Hong Kong observatory, then they expect about 8 typhoons this year, in other words we have five more to go, and as the season for tropical storms is May to October the last five should hit the next month and a half. Hopefully it will then always happen on working days as we then gets a day of to spend in the house. That was also what we did on Friday when tropical storm Nuri moved towards Hong Kong from the south east. As it came closer it was obvious that this time it would be a direct hit and the typhoon warning signal no. 9 was hoisted for the first time since 2003, so this time it could be really bad. From inside our house we followed the storm roaring around outside, blowing away everything was wasn't properly secured. Doors and windows was rattling, and the fans in the windows was turning the other way around. After hours of roaring, raining and rattling it suddenly went all quiet, not a wind and not a rain drop, just like a normal cloudy day. The eye of the storm was exactly above our city of Sai Kung. A couple of hours it was silent and then in the evening it came back from the opposite direction this time, as the back side of Nuri was passing in a north west direction.So we fell asleep with the sound of rattling windows and the howling wind around every corner.
The next morning Nuri had left and the sky was full of thousands of dragonflies buzzing around and every thing seemed normal expect the usual sticky humid hot air was replaced by a pleasant cooler and dry air, nearly like in europe in the summer. As we went for a morning run we saw the full extension of the damage the storm has left in our little community. It was nothing very big and bad to see -what we know of right now- just some dislocated boats, turned over trees and branches and leafs everywhere on the ground. So now again the people who clean up the city and the street will have a lot of work to do for some time, and when the next storm has past, they can start all over again.
The city workers on their never ending task of cleaning our beloved stadium after typhoons.
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