Typhoon Season 2013

[TheBrit]

No, you don't why kind of insurance each particular company has. Some have typhoon provisions. Some do not. Or are you telling me you know what kind of insurance every single HK company has?

Your lack of knowledge is no foundation to build a policy on. Do you know whether insurance policies in Hong Kong would cover locust plagues devouring employees, whereby a pigeon may fall from the sky and injure/kill an employee.

You don't know? Neither do I?

Should we now use this ignorance to say that no workers should commute to work when a plague of locusts could be in the vicinity?

[Claire ex-ax]

Bingo anyone?

[Trance Omega]

Whens the next one? Is it safe to put a cushion out on my balcony?

[virago]

Whens the next one? Is it safe to put a cushion out on my balcony?

It is only safe if I'm sitting on it drinking that wine you received the other week and of course with the BBQ fired and raring to go!

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[dengxi]

http://www.scmp.com/business/article...re-compromised

Article in the SCMP pointing out how the T8 signal is outdated. The figure of HKD 4bn lost should probably be taken with a pinch of salt but there is certainly a real cost to raising the T8. It also seems relevant to mention it in the same article as the slightly bizarre Philippines black travel warning - if these government warning obviously don't match reality then people will tend to ignore them.

Even if people here think the T8 signal is justified, I can't see the harm in HKO issuing a report afterwards detailing the real impact of the storm for HK people - this could well increase the credibility of the signal as well as giving a better picture of the risks.

[INXS]

A couple of the peeps. from HK Weather Underground managed to get themselves to Yangjiang as UTOR made landfall. The footage you see here is the back wall hitting, they'd already had the eye.

Yangjiang is only around 200kms (by sea) from HK and the conditions you're seeing here were being felt a lot closer than that...Utor did have a few small jogs poleward and much of the day we were only a few hours away from experiencing conditions like this...HKO got it right. Let it go...

[virago]

Hong Kong was very similar to that video but without the wind, rain and flying debris.

Sent from somewhere....

[MovingIn07]

A couple of the peeps. from HK Weather Underground managed to get themselves to Yangjiang as UTOR made landfall. The footage you see here is the back wall hitting, they'd already had the eye.

Yangjiang is only around 200kms (by sea) from HK and the conditions you're seeing here were being felt a lot closer than that...Utor did have a few small jogs poleward and much of the day we were only a few hours away from experiencing conditions like this...HKO got it right. Let it go...

200km for a storm moving less than 20km an hour in the opposite direction is NOT "near".

[Trance Omega]

Got to hand it to the donut motorbike rider

[INXS]

200km for a storm moving less than 20km an hour in the opposite direction is NOT "near".

Umm...it was very near. Sorry. 'Poleward' means, ahem, north and 100kms away is a direct hit...a little jog north and an increase in speed to 30km per hour plus a slight increase in intensity and we'd have suddenly been in trouble with certain people in, "millponds", suddenly looking a little bit vulnerable...