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