The highest measurement of rainfall in an hour was reported since records began in 1884, with 158.1mm (6.2 inches) of rain falling at the Observatory headquarters between 11pm and midnight on Thursday. The black rainstorm alert was issued on Thursday night, marking the first such warning since October 2021.
In eastern Kowloon, Lung Cheung Road near Temple Mall in Wong Tai Sin was severely flooded. An online clip showed a car being carried backwards by the flood for at least 10 metres (32 feet).
A man believed to be the driver was outside the vehicle trying to save it. He held onto the car with one hand and a lamp post with the other, slightly slowing down the vehicle’s movement.
The driver of another car chose to sit on the roof, sheltered by an umbrella, while seeking safety above the floodwaters.
In another clip, a woman holding an umbrella struggled to stop herself from being swept away by muddy water roaring down a road. She was carried along by the flood for about 50 metres.
At Wong Tai Sin [subway] station, rainwater flooded a platform.
“The entire escalator is full of water … We are like sailing in a vessel,” said a woman on board a train at the station in a social media post, uploading a video clip showing the river-like platform.
“Even Wong Tai Sin can’t save you,” she joked, referring to the temple god in the district.
don’t cross into the cross harbour tunnel if it’s storming like this, don’t try to save your car, don’t drive in flooded waters (you don’t know the status of the road)!
Reminds me of Houston, TX in the aftermath of Harvey (2018). Our high dependency on unclean sources of energy is impacting everyone. Yet we continue to do nothing.
GHG 📈
🌎🌡️ 📈
🌧️🌀🌪️📈
And then the deflecting begins.
“Climate is always changing. We’ll just have to adapt. And do you have any ideas how much it costs to change those emissions?”
“It’s changing a bit fast and giving us flooding, heat waves and storms right now. How about you adapting our infrastructure to cope with that?”
“Do you have any idea how much it costs to adapt? Bootstraps! Freedom! Personal responsibility!”
Oh damn, for a second I thought it was a pic of that transatlantic flight that had to turn around due to an explosive diarrhea incident.
How to get electrocuted: ^
It’s a bus
Still can be dangerous. Some buses have electical outlets that lets people charge their phones, and water is just… 😬
Ah yes – the deadly 5V DC outlets
It’s a 120V AC wall outlet…
Pretty sure they must have circuit breaker
I might be blind and if so that’s on me, but can you actually see a AC outlet? I’d wager DC USB A outlets being far more common in public transport.
Oh I’m not saying this particular bus, but in some cities like my city, some buses have electrical outlet so people can charge their phone on their way to work.
my first thought exactly, instead of worried being drenched or drowned
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is that subway still working? if so that’s pretty impressive
is that subway still working? if so that’s pretty impressive
MTR is running but many stations stopped because either they got flooded or the streets outside are flooded
this is a bus that got flooded
here is a subway/MTR station that’s flooded: https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/d8/images/canvas/2023/09/08/e55c8344-c070-48e2-a13c-e2b3e1a7ee16_97609f3f.jpg
it’s a wong tai sin station (wong tai sin is the god of healing in Daoism)
158.1mm (6.2 inches) of rain falling at the Observatory headquarters between 11pm and midnight
holy crap 6 inches of rain in an hour, that really is a lake full of water dumped on your head all at once
we get typhoon/monsoon season around this time but in recent years it has been stronger and more destructive than before
Weather has become more and more extreme recently. Back in 2020 one city in my country get 3000mm of rain in one day, while my country average rainfall anually is 2000-2500mm
