Tag: Hong Kong

‘Extremes will become normal’

Quote by Lam Chiu-ying, former director of the Hong Kong Observatory, the central weather forecast agency of the government of Hong Kong, from an article in the Hong Kong Free Press about the Black Rainstorm and massive deluge of the week of September 4. 2023.

Here is a selection of photo images and video stills from international media coverage from September 9. 2023.

https://hongkongfp.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Kyle_HKFP_20230908-17-Copy.jpg
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kongs-heaviest-rain-least-140-years-floods-city-streets-metro-2023-09-08/
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kongs-heaviest-rain-least-140-years-floods-city-streets-metro-2023-09-08/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66748239
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hong-kongs-heaviest-rain-least-140-years-floods-city-streets-metro-2023-09-08/

Hong Kong Bay

… with wall to protect the city from the creatures of the deep in the movie Pacific Rim (2013)

and now, or rather, in reality…

USA, China; 21. Century; Christian; Movie; City: Hong Kong

The view back

To see your city, you have to get out and look back. In many disaster movies, that’s a car ride onto a bridge. In this scene from Geostorm, the look back is directed towards Hong Kong.
USA; 21. Century; Christian; Movie; City: Hong Kong