Schools in 10 districts of Guangzhou were suspended for the day or had to open late, while the city of Zhuhai near Macau warned of waterlogging and landslides.

About 100 people were stranded at the station. Videos showed that the entrance and exit areas of the Shenzhen railway station were flooded, with trains connecting the city and the provincial capital of Guangzhou suspended. Daily rainfall in the city in the Pearl River delta linking Hong Kong to China’s mainland was expected to exceed 500mm, Shenzhen media said. Residents holding on to safety lines stepped gingerly through knee-deep water in the city, videos from state media showed.Ī rainfall log showed 465.5mm (1.5ft) of rain fell in Shenzhen over a 12-hour period, the most since records there began in 1952. The China Meteorological Administration said heavy rain would fall until early Saturday on the central and south-western areas of Guangdong province.Īll schools, some Metro stations and offices in the Guangdong city of Shenzhen were shut on Friday. Macau ferry operators in Hong Kong said several sailings would be suspended to the gambling hub. More than 100 pigs in an area near the border with Shenzhen drowned in a flood, media reported. Some passenger and cargo clearance operations at two border points between Hong Kong and Shenzhen were suspended due to flooding. Hong Kong’s Cross-Harbour Tunnel, one of the main arteries connecting the island to Kowloon, was inundated and a shopping centre in the Chai Wan district was half submerged. The StrokesFirst Impressions Of Earth 2005 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music EntertainmentReleased on.Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty ImagesĪ person taken by rescue workers to hospital was pronounced dead on arrival, a television news channel reported. Provided to YouTube by RCA Records LabelJuicebox The alert was lowered by 6pm but authorities warned of risks from continuing flooding.Ī vehicle in a collapsed section of road in Hong Kong on Friday. It said more than 200mm (7.9ins) of rain was recorded on Hong Kong’s main island, the Kowloon district and the north-eastern part of the city’s New Territories from late on Thursday. Hong Kong’s weather bureau issued its highest “black” rainstorm warning early on Friday. Although it weakened to a tropical depression, its slow-moving clouds have dumped huge volumes of precipitation on areas still soaked after a super typhoon a week earlier. The torrential rain was brought by Haikui, a typhoon that made landfall in the Chinese province of Fujian on Tuesday.

It’s quite terrifying,” said Connie Cheung, 65, an assistant nurse in Hong Kong. Even during previous typhoons, it was never this severe. “I’ve never seen scenes like this before. The extreme weather also brought chaos to the nearby Chinese city of Shenzhen, a tech hub of more than 17.7 million people, with business and transport links across the economically important Pearl River delta severely hit.

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