Night of yet another T8!

I can’t say we’ve had a lot of these typhoons this year. Last year I think we had about 7 of them hitting or affecting Hong Kong. Yesterday it kind of came unexpected. In the morning they –Hong Kong Observatory- issued the warning T1, as a typhoon was about 200 kilometers from Hong Kong. It was forecasted to pass on a southern route into Mainland China, and therefore leave Hong Kong seemingly unaffected.
None of us had expected the way it went. At noon signal T3 was hoisted and wind and heavy rain was over the city. By 4 PM the message came that the signal T8 would be hoisted at 6 PM as the typhoon had chosen a more northern direction as previously expected, and therefore also have a big impact on Hong Kong.
The signal T8 is also a signal to leave work or whatever you might do or wherever you might be, and seek home to take all precautions to secure house and belongings.
The storm came and was roaring through the valleys and over the mountains and the trees was swinging back and forth like in the hand of a big angry giant.
We were cuddling up in our house with a good film.
By bed time the wind was extremely heavy and we could hear all kind of noises from the outside. Suddenly a big bump came from our rooftop, I thought it was one of our plants falling over, and just hoped it didn’t break. There would be nothing I could do anyway.
Later a series of loud bumps woke me up, and I went to the rooftop to have a look.
Between our roof top and the neighbor there is a wall, and on that wall a bit metal fence. This was bend all over and threatening to get ripped of, with bolts and everything.
I do not know what I was thinking, but suddenly I found myself standing there in the heavy storm, at 2 AM in the morning, trying to hold a metal fence to avoid it from breaking of.
I realized it was meaningless and left it as it was as I just didn’t know what to do, in fact I could do nothing at all, just hope it would stay up there and not be blown away or fall down on anybody or anything.
Later the rain came, and by the morning there was still the T8 in force, but along with that the Amber Rain warning, which meant; School would be closed for the day, and we just had to get in and report after noon, if the signal was lowered to a T3 by 10 AM.
I guess this is one of the good things coming along with the typhoons, to get the day off.
The signal T3 was issued at 10, so we got to work in the afternoon, but off cause there was no students there, so we had yet another half day to get some preparations and some planning done. Now the typhoon has gone but left us with some very heavy rain falls, so again we’re just stuck inside the house, and most of the tidying after the typhoon has been impossible, so all over in our village, the path ways and slopes is covered in leafs, branches and what ever might been flying through the air.