Historic rains and floods a few days after Typhoon Saola

Severe severe weather is affecting South Asia on Thursday evening, particularly Hong Kong, which is barely recovering from damage caused by Typhoon Saola last weekend.

Two natural disasters in less than a week. Hong Kong is experiencing major flooding on Thursday evening after heavy rains, forcing authorities to issue the highest level of warning.

He added: “Heavy rain with a rainfall rate of more than 70 mm per square meter has been recorded or expected over a wide area of ​​Hong Kong, and the rain may continue.” Hong Kong Observatory At 11:05 p.m. the warning signal for local time.

According to a preliminary assessment, “the amount of rain recorded during one hour at the observatory headquarters between 11 p.m. and midnight reached 158.1 mm, which is the highest level since records began in 1884.”

Residents were quarantined in their homes

By provoking black vigilance, the Hong Kong Observatory is calling for extreme vigilance. He added, “Due to severe flooding on the roads and bad weather conditions, we advise the public to stay in safe places and take shelter in temporary shelters.”

The Met Institute then added: “You should not go out until the black rain warning is in effect and traffic conditions improve.”

Great videos are transmitted on social networks and through Local media. In particular, we see a station in the Wong Tai Sin area that is completely underwater. As a result, the city’s mass railway transit company announced that it would partially suspend service on one of its lines, Agence France-Presse reported.

Last Saturday, Typhoon Saola struck South Asia and Hong Kong, uprooting trees and shattering windows in its path, even if the winds were less strong than expected.