This morning I passed by The Fleming hotel Wanchai as usual on my way to office and I believe it's the first time I have seen some thick sticking tape on the windows after probably 25 years. In the old days, we used to have these to prevent windows from being shattered as sharp pieces to harm the others, not supposed as a protective thing.
Super Typhoon Megi (Korean name for a kind of fish and it's like catfish - and today it's a controversial topic for how to pronounce the Chinese name 鮎魚. In our tradition as take the upper or bottom part to pronounce if we can't have the right/left part 有邊讀邊無邊讀上下, we would probably prounce it as "jim yue", but a professor from Chinese University HK got fed up and sighed. So there we got to know it's 鯰 "nim yue".
Megi was once a super super typhoon with center gusty wind speed over 300 km per hour and around 80 meters per second. That means, it can blow you over 1.5 olympic size swimming pool in one second. Various weather stations warned that a large scale of swell from 7-15 meter high would take place and it'll break the record for the past 500 years. Swell is caused by the super typhoon pressing the water from center to edge. When such swell reaches coast, it will be like a tidal wave (just as what we see in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow").
Though Megi left HK but it is moving to Fujian and Taiwan strait. The vast plain of Southern Taiwan would be much threat, especially when the swell is to be pushed up by the Taiwan strait. Hope the north east monsoon wind will offset the massive warm moisture of Megi and get it softer....
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Yes I saw this on Jade channel last night.
I still remember in the old days we put a big cross heavy duty tape on the window when typhoon hit. I missed this scene somehow.
Thank goodness it did not hit HK. I hope it does not wreak havoc in China. Typhoon Giri also crossed into Myanmar. Sigh!
Before the Typhoon was approaching, most of the Gov't senior officers had an emergency meeting for some extra precautions. That showed how serious it would have been. Anyway, the strong north east cold front has reduced the power of Megi. Unfortunately, when Megi outer skirt's massive moisture met the cold front, it caused much rain and devastating landslides hit Hua Lin to So Au in Taiwan, causing many tourist coaches to be stuck.
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