Stocks only last four days. The metropolis’ meteorological station recorded the heaviest rainfall since records began in 1884.
After record heavy rain in Hong Kong, hospitals called for blood donations. The Red Cross blood donation service appealed to the public to do so in a message on Saturday. “Stocks have been depleted to a low level and only last four days,” he said. Typhoon “Haikui” has brought extreme rain and storm surge to the Chinese Special Administrative Region and other parts of southern China since Thursday.
According to the local newspaper South China Morning Post, more than 140 people were injured in Hong Kong and at least two others died. Some cars were flooded up to the roof, landslides occurred on mountain slopes, and schools and the stock exchange remained closed. Hong Kong’s local government has issued black alert level, the highest of three alert levels. The metropolis’ meteorological station recorded the heaviest rainfall since records began in 1884.
Climate Changes Responsible for Extreme Weather
Experts from the “South China Morning Post” blamed climate change for the extreme weather. “We need to be prepared so that what was once extreme may soon become normal,” former director of the Hong Kong Meteorological Observatory, Lam Chiu Ying, told the newspaper. Hong Kong Chief Secretary for Administration Eric Chan said on Friday that the extent of the rains was difficult to predict. Climates like this occur once every 500 years.
Parts of Guangdong province in southern China also had to face heavy rains. A total of 80,000 people were evacuated there on Friday, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported on Saturday. Numerous rail connections were cancelled. According to state media, thousands of firefighters were deployed to the tech metropolis of Shenzhen to help people whose path through bodies of water had been blocked. (APA)