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In the evening of 7 September 2023, a heavy rainstorm struck the territory of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta area, including parts of Guangdong, China and Macau.The record rainfall caused widespread flooding and landslides in the cities, four dead and dozens injured.
A flooded alley in Hong Kong on September 8, 2023. - Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images A road blocked due to the debris of a landside after heavy rains, in Hong Kong, on September 8, 2023.
On September 7, Sha Tau Kok in the North District had already recorded more than 70 millimetres (2.8 in) rainfall by 7 pm, which the Hong Kong Observatory issued a flood warning for Northern New Territories at 7:50 pm. [15] Heavy rainfall then spread to the entirety of the city, and the weather bureau issued the Amber rainstorm signal, which ...
Typhoon Doksuri made landfall in Jinjiang, Fujian, on July 28, then rapidly weakened once inland and dissipated shortly thereafter. [3] [4] Later that afternoon, National Meteorological Center of CMA issued a red alert—the highest level warning for heavy rainfall—this was only the second time a red rainfall warning had been issued—since the warning system was formally implemented in 2010.
Streets were turned into raging rivers, and business was disrupted in Hong Kong on Monday as slow-moving thunderstorms dumped heavy rainfall over the region. The first black rainfall warning of ...
September 7–8 – The remnants of Typhoon Haikui combined with a low pressure trough cause widespread flooding in Hong Kong, killing four and injuring nearly 150. [ 194 ] [ 195 ] September 4–11 – Storm Daniel causes catastrophic flooding across Libya and Southeast Europe , killing near 7,000 people and leaving 10,000 missing.
Typhoon Ellen (Herming; 1983) – a destructive typhoon that devastated Hong Kong. Typhoon Saola (Gener; 2012) – another erratic-moving typhoon that had the same name and affected similar areas 11 years before. Typhoon Vicente (Ferdie; 2012) – a strong typhoon that regarded as the strongest typhoon to hit Hong Kong and Macau in more than ...
The blood of the deceased washed into the sea and the water became red. Therefore, the bridge was named Hung Shui Kiu (and later also called the Mang Gui Kiu), in which "Hung" means "flood" and sounds the same as the word "red" in Chinese language. Years later, villagers heard the marching sound of soldiers and witnessed a ghost at midnight.