HONG KONG, Sept 4 — Typhoon Saola swept across southern China on Saturday after tearing down trees and smashing windows in Hong Kong, although the megacity avoided a feared...
HONG KONG, Sept 4 — Typhoon Saola swept across southern China on Saturday after tearing down trees and smashing windows in Hong Kong, although the megacity avoided a feared direct hit from one of the region’s strongest storms in decades.
It was downgraded before dawn on Saturday as the typhoon passed the city and tracked towards coastal areas of mainland China — where it weakened into a severe tropical storm. “Yesterday was a bit scary,” Angelie said as she ventured out to meet a friend under a blanket of constant rain.Saola left Thomas Wong, a shopkeeper in Causeway Bay, stranded overnight in his home goods store.
“But overall, we didn’t feel unsafe,” she told AFP, contrasting it to 2018’s Mangkhut which had temporarily disrupted the supply of water and electricity in some housing blocks. “I’m waiting to see if there is a storm surge and whether the waters will rise,” one woman in Lei Yue Mun told a TV news station.
China had initially warned that Saola “may become the strongest typhoon to make landfall” in the region since 1949, but by Saturday afternoon, Guangdong province downgraded its emergency response due to the weakened windspeed.
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