Posted on 09/21/2013 7:39:08 PM PDT by TexGrill
It’s 08:30 in southeast China. And people from Hong Kong to Shenzhen are bracing for what will likely go down as the strongest storm of 2013.
Typhoon Usagi, called a “monster super storm” by the Washington Post, and the “hell storm” by the Drudge Report is already bringing rain to Taiwan and an eerie calm before the storm in the Guangdong province in China.
Usagi is expected to hit landfall in the next 9 hours, according to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA).
Usagi was centered about 175 kilometers (108 miles) southeast of southern Taiwan with a maximum wind force up to scale 16 (over 120 miles an hour).
CMA forecasts the storm to move to mainland China at speed of 20 kilometers per hour (12 mph) as it approaches the coast of Guangdong state, or province as they are known in China. This is one of the most populated areas in China with over 105 million people living in the province.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Lot a water in this one.
Typhoon Rabbit.
That is just wrong.
Prayers up for the people in the path.
Snickers at naming a storm after a rabbit.
Right now it’s calm in Hong Kong. In several hours? Who knows. Everyone is hoping for the best and expecting the worst. The HK Observatory (weather service) is worried that if the typhoon hits when the waters are at high tide here then flooding could occur to low lying areas.
You have forgotten the ferocity of the rabbit that King Arthur faced...
Good luck to you! Do what most Chinese like to do when tragedy strikes. Pull out their smart phones, click on the video button and turn it into news footage. One time I saw a gas tanker on fire and 20-30 Chinese risked their lives to run to the gas tanker to film it, and later that evening it was all over the Chinese Web news.
And the trickiness of puca.
ping
Good info. here:
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=115693&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=300
(Storm2k.org forum thread for Usagi, p16.)
Something over 120 million people likely affected...
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