Typhoon Signal 8!

The Signal 8 has been raised and Typhoon Kammura is battering Hong Kong with strong winds and horizontal rain. The city's services are shut down, no busses or ferries or taxis are running, and office workers stay at home until the government weather service lowers the signal. I look out of our windows and can see whitecaps in Victoria Harbour, a rare sight.

It's pretty intense, more so by how sustained it is rather than how violent it is at its peak moments. It's not as though you see debris flying through the air and cars being picked up and dropped upside down. All of the boats in the harbor are not stacked atop each other in a corner. But I spend 40% of my day on the 21st floor of a building and 50% on the 43rd of another, so it is fine by me not to be swaying back and forth under the stress of a Cat 5 'Cane.