Super Typhoon USAGI

INXS · 22-09-2013, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by TheBrit:

Usagi looks like all fart and no shit.

It certainly looks as though we've been lucky.

Hong Kong is such a small target and it's easy to forget that actual people live in the path of USAGI. They will not be describing it as all fart and no shit, I'm sure.

To give you an analogy:

Let's say you lived in Brighton and a typhoon was coming, at the last minute it veers off and slams into Bournemouth instead. Many are killed in landslips, flooding and so on...Probably wouldn't be using words like, 'miss' or phrases like 'all fart and no shit'.

Just for reference: 2 million people.

Enough said I think.

chingleutsch · 22-09-2013, 07:51 PM

But in this case the people who are getting drowned, smothered in landslides, and losing all their worldly wealth are mainlanders (and not the sort who live in nice houses or can afford to come shopping in HK), so it doesn't matter, right?

INXS · 22-09-2013, 08:04 PM

Shantou - All fart no shit...

Missed...well, missed us...

FYI - these photos are from today and are about 300kms away....we are bloody lucky this isn't us.

imparanoic · 22-09-2013, 08:18 PM

I believe that t8 will end most likely 10am tomorrow,

INXS · 22-09-2013, 08:19 PM

Well. USAGI stopped moving north half an hour ago and is now moving due west...

Azuremain · 22-09-2013, 08:31 PM

So far quite disappointing here at TST ferry pier. Occasional gusts but nothing sustained. Weather is so unexciting that a man with a kite and an advertising placard about to fall off of a building were the main attractions. Heading home now playing battlefield.

INXS · 22-09-2013, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by Azuremain:

So far quite disappointing here at TST ferry pier. Occasional gusts but nothing sustained. Weather is so unexciting that a man with a kite and an advertising placard about to fall off of a building were the main attractions. Heading home now playing battlefield.

Umm, try again at 1am.