At the time I had a frozen shoulder (it's a medical condition) which made helping people quite painful. Thus I was only able to help little HK people because they were smaller than me. I would have loved to have walked back up and helped a few more people (they were in tears up there and bruised from falling over etc) but it was too painful so I left it to my hubby.
Your comments are condescending. You have no idea what you are talking about or what the conditions were like. I don't blame HK people for not knowing how bad it could get - it just does not get that cold in HK most of the year and freezing rain is a particularly rare occurance. I'm sure if I never seen snow and frost I would have gone looking for it as well - its just I have and I know what equipment I need.