Well, plans for today were scrapped after the Hong Kong Observatory issued a bulletin around 4am, local time, raising the typhoon warning to level 8. The significance of that number is that, once it's issued, public transport in the city shuts down after two hours and citizens are advised to seek shelter.
No taxis run, shops and offices close and not a lot happens as the city waits it out. That means work for this morning is cancelled so, as I type this, we're all looking out at a rather grey and windy Hong Kong, wondering what to do with ourselves.
Of course, the irony of this is that, as HK suffers its first T8 of the year, back home everyone's enjoying a heatwave...
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