Typhoon Season 2013

[richteralan]

Like I said, those reports only cover Hong Kong and do not report on China and PPines.

If you want to do a bit of homework, you can find *many* typhoons that put Joplin to shame. Here is one : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Bopha there are many more...

Wikipedia has extensive reports year by year like this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Pa...typhoon_season
Which will detail all sorts of death and damage for those who are curious.

Anyway, whats the point of this "my typhoon is bigger than your typhoon"?

Of course I do realize *many* typhoons put Joplin to shame, if you count South Asia countries. What I meant was specific to the damage done in Hong Kong, I should've worded my question better.

And, nobody here is arguing which one is bigger. At least not me. I already stated it's comparing apple to oranges. The question of comparison is Hong Kong specific and not a kids which-one-is-bigger argument.

But thank you for the links.

[HowardCoombs]

Of course I do realize *many* typhoons put Joplin to shame, if you count South Asia countries. What I meant was specific to the damage done in Hong Kong, I should've worded my question better.

Hong Kong learned its lessons the hard way over many years. The slopes are safe now, the buildings well regulated, boats in shelter and people in their homes with decent warning systems.

Typhoons these days (as far as HKG is concerned) are mostly a source of amusement for many, a bit of flood damage for few and lots and lots of dead trees and blocked hiking paths. Once in a while we do get a death or 2 but certainly not big numbers.

Amusement like this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDjOQpSPBSU

[Titus]

*dragging this off topic LOL*

Call me a conspiracy theorist but I think there's some political forces at play here. Ever notice how (if you can read Chinese) the headlines of the newspapers are all subjective opinions of the "journalists"? And these Apple Daily and other crap; you can trace ownership of them to overseas entities.

Just look at the moral and ethics education thing. Hundreds of thousands of people were brain washed into thinking it was Communist brain wash for their kids. I actually read through the 60 odd pages guideline and NO WHERE was there mention of even the word government or China. All it talked about was lessons and role playing scenarios to make kids understand: importance of humility, fair competition, respect of intellectual property, the distribution of household chores to instill a sense of familial responsibility, etc. All the people who were foaming at the mouth that I know, I cut and pasted guideline highlights like "making the child feel like a citizen of the global community" and asked them WHAT they have against that and WHAT are they protesting about. All they can say is this 2 page leaflet that was NEVER released nor said to be part of the curriculum that had a mainland flag on it. It was the newspapers like Apple Daily that plastered it and made people think that that was going to be the course guideline when IT WAS NOT. And yet masses of these sheeps slopped them up like gold and went on hunger strikes; the worst were the parents who didn't freaking read 60 pages and actually told their kids to join these political protests.

That course I believe was meant to start bucking the trend of kids moving away from the lack of humility; but there are certain political powers that wants to keep the masses dumb and angry so they'd get elected when general elections come. You need a certain level of education and respect for fair play in order for a general election to work. You have to be good winners and also not be sore losers; otherwise no one ever "wins" an election when the loser constantly tries to make the winner lose power after they already lost. Even Palin shut up for now after she lost. But you see Mr Tong being the sore losers with all his behind the curtain pot shots at the current administration. Bunch of sore losing back seat driving arm chair policy gurus.

Who is it that should be teaching kids to be good winners and not sore losers? Parents. But what happens when parents are obviously not doing their duties? Brushing off their parental duties to tutors and coaches; here, I paid $$$$$$ so I've done my responsibilities as a great parent even though I never spend any time to sit down and teach my own kids how to be happy in life and be fair to others. The government tries to steps in with the moral/ethics course and look what happened. These self righteous sheeps thinks these freedom-loving politicians are watching out for them by not letting their kids be brain washed by the commies, when they are being brain washed out their ears and not know it and pat themselves on their backs for being "activists".

So this trend will continue until something drastic happens; it's always like that in history, the pendulum's gotta swing all the way to one side before it swings back. We're just unfortunate we were born in a time where we have to deal with this crap.

rant over, now back to your weather forecasts

Yeah, it's true folks in HK have developed a certain entitlement mentality, and a certain dis-respect for other people in general. Not a healthy social trend if you asked me, people have become spoiled by the efficiency of HK. I mean, if the MTR is late by 1 minute, it's front-page news and those commuters will be screaming for the resignation of the MTR management, little do they realize what sort of public transport other less well-off cities are like.

But I stand by my point about people in HK needing humbleness, because that requires a certain degree of empathy for the plight of other people, something that increasingly no. of HK people lack the ability to appreciate.

[drumbrake]

The great Typhoon of 1937 killed 10 000 people in Hong Kong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_H...yphoon_of_1937

[usehername]

From what I read in scmp, students would have been graded on, amongst other things, their level of patriotism to china. Don't know if that's true or not but certainly more than just teaching morality.

[Raccon]

Of course I do realize *many* typhoons put Joplin to shame, if you count South Asia countries. What I meant was specific to the damage done in Hong Kong, I should've worded my question better.

There is no way to word your question better - just because T10s have done little damage to HK recently it doesn't mean it's guaranteed that HK will always be that lucky; what has happened in those other places can also happen here.

You can also continue to hide behind semantics ('still waiting') or just admit that you want to experience something that is able to cause wide-spread destruction and death.

But perhaps you really do believe that a T10 won't do damage based on past events, in which case the label 'fool' is well deserved.

[INXS]

There is no way to word your question better - just because T10s have done little damage to HK recently it doesn't mean it's guaranteed that HK will always be that lucky; what has happened in those other places can also happen here.

You can also continue to hide behind semantics ('still waiting') or just admit that you want to experience something that is able to cause wide-spread destruction and death.

But perhaps you really do believe that a T10 won't do damage based on past events, in which case the label 'fool' is well deserved.

I hope to experience more T10s and I hope that no damage or injury occurs...one way or another, I'm quite sure that my hope will have no influence on typhoons, their strength and trajectory or the disruption, damage, injury and death caused by them.

[virago]

I'm sure you guys are pissing into a 'typhoon' wind. There has only been two T10's that have hit hk in the past 28 years.

Don't hold your breath.

Sent from somewhere....

[richteralan]

There is no way to word your question better - just because T10s have done little damage to HK recently it doesn't mean it's guaranteed that HK will always be that lucky; what has happened in those other places can also happen here.

You can also continue to hide behind semantics ('still waiting') or just admit that you want to experience something that is able to cause wide-spread destruction and death.

But perhaps you really do believe that a T10 won't do damage based on past events, in which case the label 'fool' is well deserved.

Ah I can feel the hate. Please buddy, you should find another way to vent instead of starting a fight on the interwebz.

Also did I say T10 will not do any damage? No. It's a matter of reading comprehension, not semantics.

[richteralan]

I hope to experience more T10s and I hope that no damage or injury occurs...one way or another, I'm quite sure that my hope will have no influence on typhoons, their strength and trajectory or the disruption, damage, injury and death caused by them.

Uh oh. You did it! You said the magic word!
Be careful certain members here will say you are a fool.