Must have been the biggest 'fizzer' of a Typhoon - we got up to a T8 warning on late Thurs night (ferries stop, schools stop many businesses stop etc:) but the weather was mild - milder than it had been in the previous 3 weeks of wet. There was no real wind to worry about (that we could see).

Interestingly a small village at the end of our Island (Lantau - where the new airport is) was flooded by high tides, but further down the Isalnad we had no idea & only learned of it on the news.

Some parts of the New Territories were supposed to have been mildly flooded -

My daughter in Scotland contacted us as they had seen warnings there but have to tell ya - it was a non-event for HK.

Cheers & thanks for your kind thoughts

Doug

Yup we were lucky - have heard real horror stories about some of the bad ones in past years here.

Also had the oppotuntiy to work in Cary N.C. in 1999 & went for a trip to the outter banks - now that would be a scary place to be in a big cyclone.

I still find it strange to think of all those house built with hollow 1st floors, just to let the tidal surge thru with minimal obstruction.

Cheers

Doug