Let's hope they taped the window's before heading out for the holiday.*
From CNN via MSN, Sept. 15:
Shanghai was brought to a standstill on Monday morning by what authorities say was the strongest typhoon to directly hit the Chinese financial hub in more than seven decades, with flights, trains and highways suspended during a national holiday.
Typhoon Bebinca made landfall in an industrial suburb southeast of the metropolis of 25 million people around 7:30 a.m. local time. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) said it packed top wind speeds of 130 kilometers per hour (80 mph), the equivalent of a Category 1 Atlantic hurricane....
....MORE
As noted in this 2020 post (HK is further south, closer to the equator, tropical, a degree or so south of the Tropic of Cancer):
Shipping: "Typhoon could hit Port of Hong Kong this weekend"
We are talking a lot of tape.*
And because the headline story is from FreightWaves we're talking shipping:
Hong Kong may have to brace for a typhoon slamming its large container port this weekend.
A cluster of thunderstorms over the Philippines has the potential to become a typhoon during the next couple of days. This would be the second named storm of the 2020 Pacific typhoon season. The first was Typhoon Vongfong, known as Typhoon Ambo in the Philippines, which hit that island nation in May. The season runs throughout the year, but most Pacific typhoons develop from May through October.....MUCH MORE
This storm, which would be named Typhoon Nuri, will likely track over the northern Philippines on Friday, June 12, moving into southeastern China over the weekend. The projected track takes the storm close to Hong Kong on Sunday, June 14.
The potential typhoon could delay various services, from container cargo to cruises and public transportation.
Hong Kong is one of the busiest container ports in the world....
*Hong Kong has more skyscrapers than any other city in the world.
That's a lot of glass:
And in 2018's "Supertyphoon Mangkhut Downgraded To Severe Typhoon":
....And here's the South China Morning Post's front page.
They're reporting that Hong Kong Has run out of tape for the windows....
And Andy Yeung via DesignBoom:
