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Originally Posted by h030831
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Just a suggestion - but you guys in Chang Ping and surrounds right now should at least make some preparations - including your flight plans (most are already cancelled today and tomorrow ) as well as a bit of water and food provisions - especially if staying in higher floors; daya bay nuclear plant nearby is already being battened down and electricity cuts could easily happen.
People forget how bad typhoons can be as we've not had super strong ones hitting major population centers in decades.
Typhoon Usagi's wind speed will be similar to Typhoon Wanda' peak winds of 175 km/h (110 mph) in the South China Sea, and it made landfall on Hong Kong on September 1, 1962 producing gusts of 261 km/h (161 mph) which, in combination with a high storm surge, damaged thousands of huts and left 72,000 people homeless. Wanda left a total of 434 deaths, and it is estimated that an identical typhoon striking today would cause HK$2.6 billion ($335 million USD) in losses.
Note that all figures are only for Hong Kong! The rest of China is not included as the mainland was not even in people's consciousness back then!
SEAJ