Guest post by Joe Hoft
MANGKHUT TYPHOON BLASTS HONG KONG AND CHINA!
These videos are UNBELIEVABLE!
The world’s largest population center takes Direct Hit!
Shek’O beach pic.twitter.com/cVV6hhDWnX
— Jen Zhu (@jenzhuscott) September 16, 2018
BUILDINGS ARE SHAKING!
High rise building swinging in #TyphoonManghkut #HK pic.twitter.com/H4P0GdL8sV
— Jen Zhu (@jenzhuscott) September 16, 2018
Shenzhen Meishawan Hotel #TyphoonManghkut pic.twitter.com/HYdyGDSyvr
— Jen Zhu (@jenzhuscott) September 16, 2018
CRANES ARE FALLING!
A crane just came down #TyphoonManghkut #HK pic.twitter.com/3RKpWei1Yn
— Jen Zhu (@jenzhuscott) September 16, 2018
Per the Wall Street Journal –
Typhoon Mangkhut, the world’s most powerful storm this year, skidded into mainland China on Sunday after claiming at least 59 lives in the Philippines and pummeling Hong Kong and Macau during a devastating churn across the tropical-storm prone region.
Although the region remained on alert, the storm was expected to start dissipating after its Sunday landfall. In the Philippines, rescuers searched for victims of landslides responsible for most of the deaths there. In Hong Kong, emergency workers began cutting away trees that fell in major roadways, as the city began what will be a major cleanup.
Typhoon Mangkhut packed sustained winds as high as 170 miles an hour, equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane, according to the U.S. military’s joint Typhoon Warning Center. That is about twice the 90 mph winds generated by Hurricane Florence, which struck the U.S.
Videos were posted on Twitter showing the massive destruction hitting the Pearl River Delta megacity, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, with more than 50 million people.
Starting a thread of various videos today in HK and Shenzhen as the world’s strongest storm #TyphoonManghkut wiping our cities. (Videos are not mine but collected from messages doing the rounds w WhatsApp and WeChat) pic.twitter.com/FXU5ITrFqN
— Jen Zhu (@jenzhuscott) September 16, 2018
(check the thread in the above)
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