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    Quote Originally Posted by cblurton:
    In the video, Lo performed an experiment where a weight was dropped from a height of 30 centimetres on two panes of glass. The untaped glass broke, while the taped pane did not.
    Sigh. You would really have to have more details of this experiment before deciding whether a 30cm drop onto glass would be comparable to the winds from this incoming storm, or any T8.
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    Quote Originally Posted by freeier:
    anyway that dustbin is a singaporean one. more likely chain up to deter someone from stealing it home ?
    No. Singaporean Garbage bins are green. I live there. You do not get typhoons in Singapore. Singaporeans will steal the postal declaration stickers from the post offices and rival HKers for supermarket give out freebies. But when it comes to bins, and signs for directions to the toilets, forget it. No go. No steal. they would rather steal someone's unneutered dog or cat for illegal homebreeding than a garbage bin.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AmRa6:
    Preparing for a Typhoon - HK Style: Make plans with friends to go to one of the many local bar/restaurants that stay open no matter what.
    Cat 0 or Cat 5, if you are in an urban area like the mid-levels just relax and be glad you live in HK.

    That being said a few random things to watch out for:
    1. Typhoon winds can be so strong that the exhaust fan in your bathroom may start blowing air IN not out. This means rain comes in and your bathroom gets puddles.

    2. Falling branches. If there are trees branches on your street, some will inevitably break and fall. Don't trip on them on your way back from the bar.

    3. Most big buildings have generators that will power all the public lights, lifts, water pumps, etc. even in the very unlikely event the main electric supply goes out so you don't have to worry about any of that. UNLESS you have the extremely bad luck to be in an older lift during the 1-2 seconds between when the main electricity goes out and the generator kicks in. Some older lifts freeze as a safety precaution and don't restart automatically so you are stuck. It happens a couple of times a year in HK when lightning hits a transformer or something.

    Other than that just follow the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy cover and Don't Panic.
    Good advice. When we lived in our village house on Lantau, this advice applied. I remember Usagi when the shelves of Wellcome and PnS were cleared out and nothing really happened. Never taped our windows but then again, we had heavy curtains pulled across. Fans closed off, only two reverse cycle air cons going for ventilation and our rooftop furniture tied tightly down to the rooftop balcony poles. My Swede husband who has never grown up with this whereas I lived through so many cyclones growing up in Queensland, could not understand the severity. Well, try having a four storey high grey gum tree fall through your roof, water pouring through the ceiling, windows gone, and no electricity for 48 hrs. At least living near the local hospital and our electricity linked to theirs - generator powered, this helped, but on HK islands...

    1.If you have a generator and need it, use it. If you don't but someone else does, let then borrow it.

    2. Water. Stockpile buckets.

    3. Tinned food. from veg, meat to fruit.

    4. towels for mopping up leaks.

    5. Curtains closed across windows.

    6. Torches. books, board games. Anything to pass the time that doesn't need electricity or internet.
    7. Bring inside or tie down furniture.

    8. park your car near a wall or a sheltered place. Carparks, pref of upper level as lower levels may flood. Our hyundai elantra survived a few typoons parked in a village carpark next to buses.

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    I was hoping to head to LKF tonight for a while, do you guys reckon bars will be closed?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Éirelad:
    I was hoping to head to LKF tonight for a while, do you guys reckon bars will be closed?
    They should be open as long as it's T3.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Éirelad:
    I was hoping to head to LKF tonight for a while, do you guys reckon bars will be closed?
    Open and will have tons of specials. But might have a problem finding taxes back home if T8 goes up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    Open and will have tons of specials. But might have a problem finding taxes back home if T8 goes up.
    The observatory said T8 will(not may) go up between 11pm and 2am...

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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    Open and will have tons of specials. But might have a problem finding taxes back home if T8 goes up.
    Then we will start seeing threads from whiney gwailos on how their taxi drivers over charged them or will not take them across the harbour.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Golem:
    The observatory said T8 will(not may) go up between 11pm and 2am...
    The if was was for 'if the signal goes up while you are out'.

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    Have just prepped water reserves: boiled over a gallon of water on the stove + in the kettle to tide us over the next two days. Got jars and pots and containers of water now.